About the Author

As a visual artist John Lyons has exhibited internationally, and his works are in public and private collections in the UK, USA, France and Holland. He is Director of the Hourglass Studio Gallery in Hebden Bridge.

Reviews

'Behind The Carnival [his previous collection] paints a Caribbean world of superstition and fear, the darkness beneath the calypso mask... The poems are rich, not at all dead or dark; they dance out of the shadows, tricksy with dub and argot... There is colour and heat and vitality.' - Linda France, Poetry Review