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City of Dog
The city of dog is Newcastle, the centre of the known world for George Charlton and fellow drinkers of dog, or brown ale - also dog as in dog-eared, dog-end, dog days, dog-watch and dog's life. The poems move from nights out in city pubs, set against a background of urban decay and economic gloom, through a record of adolescent joy and pain (of course there's a girl involved), to end in the dog-tired suburbs and beyond. Throughout the book runs the ghost of a fiction, that of a seventeen year old Merchant Navy navigating cadet who wanted to be a poet, and a forty-odd year old poet who wanted to go to sea, but failed the eyesight test.
Nightshift Workers
'George Charlton's poetry does more than touch on the harsh realities of life in the modern industrial city. Instead, his writing issues from somewhere very close to the warm, affectionate and wholehearted centre of the Tyneside and Northumberland where he lives. It is a generous poetry, urban in its awareness of lives other than his own, as well as industrial dynasties, work, imperial foolishness and a manipulative economy; and it is natural in its perceptions of 'the slick regimes of leaf'. It is also maritime in its recognitions of the Tyne's business with the sea and ships. It is an unfussy, clear poetry, but often mysterious in its lyricism. For all its rootedness, it is far from "regional", but a poetry of place and community in which a perceiving self gasps to understand the everyday and its resonances. I recommend it.' - Douglas Dunn
Archaeologia Aeliana, Or, Miscellaneous Tracts Relating to Antiquity
"A classified catalogue of papers from Archaeologia aeliana, 1813-1913", is included in the Centenary volume, ser. 3, v. 10, p. 334-376.
Invasions of Privacy
Investigates alleged unwarranted invasions of privacy by Federal agencies and surveillance techniques used as tools of law enforcement.
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