Welcome to the Armstrong-Dixon Line where North East England based writer Keith Armstrong and artist Peter Dixon share their views on the world and all that surrounds it.
Expect rants, politics, poetry, history, photography and all sorts of........stuff.
‘He’ll tell his tale o’er a pint of ale, And crack his joke, and bad Must be the heart who loveth not To hear the Collier Lad.’ (Skipsey)
To be a pitman poet you drag words out of the seam of a dictionary, write against the grain all the time feeling the pain of a small education, scribbling in the dark for a bright spark germ of a poem. Hewing for rhymes, ducking in case the roof of the verse caved in on you, Joe it was bloody hard to learn, to craft a line from the black pit when the whole world weighed down on you. A man was forced to sing, to render a ballad like a lamp in the tunnel, scraping an education from coal, crawling along bookshelves to find daylight, Shakespeare, Shelley and melody in the stacks of an underground library.
BENSHAM GROVE COMMUNITY CENTRE, SIDNEY GROVE, GATESHEAD
WEA NE History and Heritage Branch & NORTHERN VOICES COMMUNITY PROJECTS PRESENT: THE PITMAN POET OF PERCY MAIN: JOSEPH SKIPSEY (1832-1903)
THE W.E.A. AND NORTHERN VOICES COMMUNITY PROJECTS PRESENT: THE
PITMAN POET OF PERCY MAIN: JOSEPH SKIPSEY (1832-1903) 185TH ANNIVERSARY
OF HIS BIRTH EVENT WITH TYNESIDE LAUNCH OF A NEW BOOK ABOUT SKIPSEY
PUBLISHED BY NVCP IN ASSOCIATION WITH NORTH TYNESIDE COUNCIL. FEATURING
POETRY AND SONGS BY CONTRIBUTORS TO THE BOOK, TOGETHER WITH READINGS OF
SKIPSEY'S OWN POEMS, INTRODUCED BY EDITORS KEITH ARMSTRONG AND PETER
DIXON OF NORTHERN VOICES COMMUNITY PROJECTS WITH FOLK MUSIC BY THE
SAWDUST JACKS, KEITH GREGSON AND GARY MILLER AND ALSO FEATURING ANN
SESSOMS ON NORTHUMBRIAN PIPES WITH
PERIOD TUNES.
TUESDAY 26TH SEPTEMBER 7.30PM, BENSHAM GROVE COMMUNITY CENTRE, SIDNEY GROVE, GATESHEAD.
BENSHAM GROVE COMMUNITY CENTRE, SIDNEY GROVE, GATESHEAD
WEA NE History and Heritage Branch & NORTHERN VOICES COMMUNITY PROJECTS PRESENT: THE PITMAN POET OF PERCY MAIN: JOSEPH SKIPSEY (1832-1903)
THE W.E.A. AND NORTHERN VOICES COMMUNITY PROJECTS PRESENT: THE
PITMAN POET OF PERCY MAIN: JOSEPH SKIPSEY (1832-1903) 185TH ANNIVERSARY
OF HIS BIRTH EVENT WITH TYNESIDE LAUNCH OF A NEW BOOK ABOUT SKIPSEY
PUBLISHED BY NVCP IN ASSOCIATION WITH NORTH TYNESIDE COUNCIL. FEATURING
POETRY AND SONGS BY CONTRIBUTORS TO THE BOOK, TOGETHER WITH READINGS OF
SKIPSEY'S OWN POEMS, INTRODUCED BY EDITORS KEITH ARMSTRONG AND PETER
DIXON OF NORTHERN VOICES COMMUNITY PROJECTS WITH FOLK MUSIC BY THE
SAWDUST JACKS AND ALSO FEATURING ANN SESSOMS ON NORTHUMBRIAN PIPES WITH
PERIOD TUNES.
TUESDAY 26TH SEPTEMBER 7.30PM, BENSHAM GROVE COMMUNITY CENTRE, SIDNEY GROVE, GATESHEAD.
Dr Jude Murphy, Project Organiser (Heritage) Part-time : working days: Tuesday to Thursday
WEA North East Region Joseph Cowen House, 21 Portland Terrace Newcastle upon Tyne NE2 1QQ
