The twin towers of Holy Cross Church point skyward like rockets ready for a mission to Mars.
And after a visit by the Children’s Laureate to a North Belfast primary school such a line could soon be the launchpad for a glittering life in poetry.
Joseph Coelho was at Mercy Primary on the Crumlin Road this week where he regaled the girls of P5 and P6 with tales of secret gardens and disappearing statues all borne out of a concrete English estate transformed by the imagination of a young boy with an eye for a good story.
