John Lancaster (writer)
John Lancaster (born 18 April 1946) is a British poet and writer. He has published six collections of poetry: Effects of War (1986); Split Shift (with Geoff Hattersley) (1990); The Barman (1993), Here In Scotland (with Milan Knizak) (2000) and Potters: A Division of Labour (2017) which won the inaugural Arnold Bennett Book Prize. His latest collection is Where The Trent Rises (2023) from Clayhanger Press.