It was sixty years ago this year ... university plans festival event to honour poetry landmark
An historic poetry landmark in Newcastle that hasn’t been open to the public for a long time but still captures literary imaginations reaches its 60th anniversary this year. Morden Tower, built around 1290 as part of the city’s medieval walls by Edward I, will be celebrated at a Newcastle poetry festival event next month. In the 1960s the tower, lacking electricity, sanitation, and indeed chairs, hosted a swathe of American p...
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