Events & News in the Tees Valley

Frank Reeve

Ormesby Hall, Middlesbrough: Thursday 9 July, 7pm
As a young man, Frank Reeve drove combine-harvesters in the Midwest wheat fields and worked as a longshoreman on the Hudson River docks. In the 1960s he worked in Moscow and translated for Robert Frost when he met Nikita Khrushchev. On his first visit to the North East, he will be reading from his new book, The Blue Cat Walks the Earth, backed by jazz duo John Lake and Phil Paton.

The Blue Cat is a cross between Top Cat, Puss in Boots, The Cat in the Hat and Schrodinger’s Cat. He’s a trickster, a prankster, an illusionist and an illusion. Of course, he’s telling the truth. And of course, you don't have to believe him. Nine lives out of ten, the truth is unbelievable.

Also reading their poems are pupils from Stokesley School and Gillbrook College, plus Teesside poets Maureen Almond, Lindsay Balderson, Joanna Boulter, Marilyn Longstaff, Tom Richardson and Annie Wright.

Entrance £5, which includes a free glass of wine.

Ormesby Hall
Church Lane
Ormesby, nr Middlesbrough
TS7 9AS
Tel: 01642 328900
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www.nationaltrust.org.uk/main/w-ormesbyhall
Sat nav users should use TS3 0SR for the entry gates