Land of Three Rivers: The Poetry of North-East England Sarajevo Roses and life’s losing struggle with

and life’s losing struggle with the gravity of nature

or bashfully

The poet in this new collection is at once removed from and immersed in the terrain of his examination

In a series of feminist monologues

Curated by Poet Laureate Carol Ann Duffy and by Gillian Clarke

Land of Three Rivers: The Poetry of North-East England Sarajevo Roses and life’s losing struggle withLand of Three Rivers is a celebration of North East England in poetry, featuring its places and people, culture, history, language and stories in poems and songs with both rural and urban settings. Taking its bearings from the Tyne, Wear and Tees of the title (from Vin Garbutts song John North), the book maps the region in poems relating to past and present, depicting life from Roman times through medieval Northumbria and the industrial era of mining