"What can I say about a collection featuring a singing and dancing papaya, a pesky street character known as Noman, a Vaudeville mime artist who performs in an A road lay-by and a Flat Earth advocate, to mention only a few? When people put me on the spot and ask me what my poems are about, I am usually lost for words. But then I am often lost for words. Conversation isn't really my thing. Perhaps that's why I write poems in the first place. Papaya Fantasia is a bus journey, it's a variety show, a long wave broadcast, a comedy-horror B film and a cut-up autobiography." - David Mark Williams