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Poetry and Jazz at the Morden Tower

Event Date: 10/07/2009

Poetry and Jazz at the Morden Tower with legendary US poet Frank Reeve.

As a young man Frank Reeve drove combine-harvesters in the Midwest wheat fields and worked as a longshoreman on the Hudson River docks. In the 1960s he worked in Moscow and translated for Robert Frost when he met Nikita Khrushchev. On his first visit to Tyneside, he will be reading from his new book The Blue Cat Walks the Earth, backed by jazz duo John Lake and Phil Paton.

The Morden Tower, Back Stowell Street, West Walls, Newcastle, 8pm, £2

Buy The Blue Cat Walks the Earth here

Armed Forces Day - 27 June 2009

The first Armed Forces Day is taking place on Sunday 27 June. This special day honours the men and women who make up the Armed Forces community – from currently serving troops to Service families and from veterans to recruits.

From this year on, Armed Forces Day will be held annually on this day. The Historic Dockyard Chatham will host the first national Armed Forces Day event, which will be complemented by hundreds of events in towns and cities across the UK.

The event has been described as 'phenomenally important' to British servicemen by the Defence Secretary, Bob Ainsworth.

Visit Armed Forces Day, for more information on how you can get involved.

You can also read the brave story of Russell Margerison, who decided to join Bomber Command as a teenager in Boys at War. He writes of the dangerous but strangely unreal world of a mid-upper air gunner with 625 Squadron, sitting high in the turret of a mighty Lancaster bomber over occupied Europe, wrapped in several layers of clothes and awed by the destructive beauty of the scene below.

Buy Boys at War here

Visit the author's website here

Poetry readings from Hearing Eye

Event Date: 05/07/2009

Lucy Hamilton will launch her new pamphlet, Sonnets for my Mother at Torriano Meeting House. Poets from the floor are also welcome.

Sonnets for my Mother is one of six new pamphlets published by Hearing Eye in 2009.

Hearing Eye is a small independent press established in 1987. One of their distinctive features is that they keep all their books in print, a policy now abandoned by most publishing houses. They also work very closely with the individual authors on both the production and presentation of their work.

Torriano Meeting House, 99 Torriano Avenue, London NW5 2RX, 7.30pm, £5/£4/£3. Tel: 020 7267 2751

You can buy Sonnets for my Mother, part of the Hearing Eye Pamphlet subscription here

AJ Duggan talks about his debut novel at Simply Books in Cheshire

Event Date: 24/06/2009

Flambard author A.J. Duggan will be reading, signing and doing a question and answer session to promote his debut novel Scars Beneath the Skin tonight.

Scars Beneath the Skin
Karl Dresner makes a decision he will come to regret and finds himself caught up in a bomb blast in London. The doctors repair the scars on the outside but Karl is left a lonely, withdrawn man, living in a private abyss and filling his nights with empty sex. Scars Beneath the Skin is a dark modern love story set against the anxieties of our uncertain world.

Simply Books, 228 Moss Lane, Bramhall, Cheshire, SK7 1BD, 7 - 8.30pm. Tel: 0161 439 1436

Buy Scars Beneath the Skin here