Planet Corona, The First 100 Columns: As published in The Journal, Newcastle - Softcover

Mortimer; Peter

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0995457980 ISBN 13: 9780995457980

Publisher: Iron Press, 2021

Synopsis

At the pandemic's start Peter Mortimer began writing a daily column for the Journal, Newcastle's morning newspaper. Satirical, comic and sometimes absurdist these columns focus directly or indirectly on the Covid-19 phenomenon. The first 100 columns are collected here.

About this title

About the Author

Peter Mortimer - poet, playwright, journalist, publisher - has lived in the North East for more than forty years, and many of his books and plays have been published and performed here. He is used to writing about difficult places: against Foreign Office advice he wandered round Yemen; he set up a children's theatre group in a Palestinian refugee camp in Lebanon and, over one summer, walked the length of Britain with one dog and no money, dependent on the kindness of strangers to provide accommodation and food. Peter Mortimer's 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; and Camp Shatila - a Writer's Chronicle, which grew from the two months towards the end of 2008, when he lived in Shatila Refugee Camp, Beirut.

Edition details

• Publisher: Iron Press
• Publication date: 2021
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0995457980
• ISBN 13: 9780995457980
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 144