A POET is returning to his North-East roots to write about the men and women who gave service to the Durham Light Infantry.
Hartlepool-born Dave B Calder, whose father served in the regiment, has taken up a residency with Durham County Council's arts, libraries and museums department.
His brief included a day-long residency at the DLI Museum and Durham Art Gallery on Sunday.
Mr Calder, now living in Wiltshire, was accompanied by Kevin Cadwallender, the department's first poet-in-residence.
Mr Cadwallender is co-ordinating the residency as part of the county council's Sharp Stick poetry initiative, backed by Northern Arts, Durham City Arts, and the county council.
He said: "We are trying to find places and stories that have not been recorded by poets before, or very rarely.
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