John Lucas (born 1937) is a poet, critic, biographer, anthologist and literary historian.
[1] He runs a poetry publishers called Shoestring Press, and he is the author of 92 Acharnon Street (Eland, 2007),[2] which won the Dolman Best Travel Book Award in 2008.
He has written and translated over forty books, including critical studies of Dickens, John Clare and Arnold Bennett, books on English poetry, an anthology of the works of Nancy Cunard, as well as a life of his maternal grandfather, which combines biography with social history.
[5] His most recent books include A World Perhaps: New and Selected Poems, The Radical Twenties: Writing, Politics, Culture, and The Good That We Do.
[1] Lucas plays jazz cornet and trumpet with the Nottingham-based Burgundy Street Jazzmen.