ROD VINCENT is an Anglo-Irish chartered psychologist, a writer and a musician. He is an associate fellow of the British Psychological Society, and during his previous career as a business psychologist he helped to develop leaders in forty-one countries. He now mostly confines himself to walking the Shropshire Hills. His poems and stories have won prizes in competitions and been published in a number of literary journals including Poetry Ireland Review, Stand and The Rialto. His poems are also in the Iron Book of New Humorous Verse (Iron Press). He writes the lyrics and plays bass as one half of O’Reilly & Vincent.