Chris Searle

Searle's poetic heroes include Blake, Brecht, Rosenberg, Mayakovsky, Agostinho Neto, Merle Collins, Hikmet, Whitman, Faiz, Neruda, Rita Joe, Brathwaite, Mahmoud Darwish, Bessie Smith and Martin Carter. Lightning of Your Eyes is a selection of poems of forty years of teaching and travelling in Britain, Africa and the Caribbean, celebrating language and education, cricket and revolution.