The latest poetry book for schools to come off the press from Hodder & Stoughton, this is a welcome addition, and probably the best available so far. It is a handsome book, beautifully printed and laid out (so that most of the poems hold on a single page), with generous margins and with each of the eight sections preceded by a pleasant line drawing by Jennifer Northway, illustrating some scene related to the theme of that section.

In this article I explore constructions of diasporic space in the work of two Caribbean-diaspora poets, Jean 'Binta' Breeze, and Dorothea Smartt, and examine the ways in which circuits of departure, arrival, and return in selected poems, function as sites from which complex, interconnected identities are produced. The region is commonly defined as a space of migratory flows, which are both permanent and impermanent, and characterized by frequent returns 'home' (Trotz & Mullings, 2013, p. 154).