Event Description
A creative writing workshop on the theme of Carnival led by poet and artist John Lyons.
‘Music is the beating heart of my poetry. The sound of words in a certain order gives rhythm to my poems; it is a way of expressing emotions, feelings, thoughts and ideas about what is happening around me. As a child in Trinidad singing and telling stories were as natural a part of my life as breathing.
Long before I grew to love the beauty of language in poetry, I enjoyed its rhythm of music in storytelling. Those stories were about folklore characters and jumbies (ghosts); and often accompanied with song. My imagination went wild, making these stories heart- thumpingly scarier and scarier. Looking back, I suppose, it was then the seed that linked poetry and music was planted in my mind’.
