ALAN MORRISON recommends a consummate, heart-warming collection about a working-class upbringing in the industrial north-east

ANDY CROFT welcomes the publication of an anthology of recent poems published by the Morning Star, and hopes it becomes an annual event

RUTH AYLETT reviews two collections of outright political poetry

TONY FOX invites readers to come and hear the story of the remarkable Liverpudlian International Brigader Alexander Foote