A collection of love poems, lyric poetry and work from McNeill's Blakean alter ego, all characterised by their startling originality - completed shortly before his death, it is a farewell to the world which moves like a bird in flight between moments of painful regret, wry humour and a sense of closure.

In the voices of Jamaican prophets, Cuban exiles, exotic dancers, drunks, race-track punters, canecutters, rastamen, middle-class householders and screw-face ghetto sufferers, Geoffrey Philp writes poetry which will make you look afresh at your own life, the networks of people around you and the concepts which shape your existence.