Keith Armstrong (author)

Newcastle upon Tyne born author and poet Keith Armstrong has been and remains an inescapable figure in the creative life of North East England.

He has held many residencies in the North East, including Hexham Racecourse as part of Year of the Artist in 2000 and at The Grand Hotel Tynemouth in 2010.

Keith has long pioneered cultural exchanges with Durham's twinning partners, particularly Tübingen and Nordenham in Germany and Ivry-sur-Seine and Amiens in France, as well as with Newcastle's Dutch twin-city of Groningen.

A key collaborator has been Gary Miller and Armstrong wrote the lyrics for a 1995 album called Bleeding Sketches,[6] by folk-rock band The Whisky Priests, with whom he has toured extensively in The Netherlands.

[8] Keith has edited and published a book to celebrate the centenary of Spanish City, Whitley Bay.

(Peter Lewis, Hexham Courant) 'Keith is a noted Geordie wordsmith, a bloke whose musings were always radical, though of their place.'