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Peter Mortimer - poet, playwright, journalist, publisher - has lived in the North East for thirty years, and many of his books and plays have been published and performed here. His books include: The Last of the Hunters: Life with the Fishermen in North Shields; I Married the Angel of the North (poetry); Off the Wall: the Journey of a Play; and Cool for Qat, which grew out of his commission to write a play about the 1930 Yemeni seamen's riot in South Shields.
That play, RIOT, is revived this summer, first at the Customs House in South Shields from Wednesday 11th - Saturday 14th June (Customs House web site) and then at Liverpool's Unity Theatre July 18 - 19, as part of the Liverpool Arabic Arts Festival.
Mortimer at Large, a collection of his newspaper columns for the North Tyneside based News Guardian series of papers is just published by IRON Press/North Tyneside Libraries, and the author has been giving a series of readings throughout the borough. A review in the Northern Echo referred to "these coruscating columns". Peter Mortimer has just been booked to appear at Porters Cafe, Tynemouth Station on Saturday evening, June 21, where his reading will be backed up by live music, including his son Dylan.
Tickets are £5.00 and can be obtained from (0191) 2586100.
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Last update: 29th April 2008