Land of Three Rivers: The Poetry of North-East England Harvard University Press without revision

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Land of Three Rivers: The Poetry of North-East England Harvard University Press without revisionLand 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