RainbirdPeter Mortimers new full length play has its world premiere at The Exchange Theatre North Shields for the full week beginning Monday April 23rd 2018. Rainbird is based on the life of the North Shields artist Victor Noble Rainbird who before the First World War was seen as one of the most talented artists in the region and was the only northerner accepted for the Royal Academy of Arts in London in 1911, where he won various awards and prizes. Rainbirds

Karthika Nair’s epic poem ‘Until the Lions’ is conceived as an echo of its great Sanskrit forerunner

A reference book for students of Irish literature it is also a poetry anthology representing poets who have published at least one collection

Ticker-tape is bold

John Walsh was born in Derry

Brian Patten

even as our collective future – death – looms

Previous books include Cunawabi

from time to time

This Collected Poems comprises a body of work which has endured and which transcends the label 'war poetry'

For most people

FEATURE ON ALBERT COSSERY

art critic and fomer cricketer