Maskwork John Banville and kissed her

and kissed her

disruptive and digressive

a prostitute who lives and fails to find love on the Dungle

do indeed dance like sunlight on the sweet water of the Caribbean or sunlight reflected from Guiana’s numerous waterways

Helen Constantine

Maskwork John Banville and kissed herIn Gregory Leadbetters second poetry collection, Maskwork, mystery, theatre and ritual combine to reveal rather than to disguise. The mask, in these resonant poems, acts as a way of becoming, seeing, and knowing granting access to altered states and otherworlds hidden within and beyond ourselves. Here, language itself becomes an animating magic, connecting humans to our ecological roots. The spirit of revival, renaissance, new birth and rebirth haunts