To my son Miles, with love. All day all night.
To my brothers, Keith, Karl, Kingsley, Howard and Nigel, for all their kindness and support over these many years.
Sincere thanks to Hugh Hodges for being such a good friend and generous reader of my work.
To Margaret Busby, Candida Lacey, Dawn Sackett, Lydia Cooper and Linda McQueen for making this book into a book.
To Swithin Wilmot for information on Redemption Ground Market.
To Asif Khan, for the author photo taken with his phone!
To Edward Baugh and Hilary Beckles of the U.W.I. Mona.
To Michael Schmidt and Carcanet for all they do for my poems.
To Petrona Morrison, Errol Moo Young and Tony Robinson for over forty years of friendship.
To Donna Singh, who told me thirty years ago that I should write a book of essays.
To Ted, for always believing in this work.