These poems give voice to Britain's Caribbean emigre's, whose journeys held strange echoes of earlier sea voyages which had brought ancestors from Africa to the slave plantations. James Berry, who was born in Jamaica, was one of these emigrants, settling in Britain in 1948. His new book explores the different reasons his fellow travelers had for leaving the Caribbean when they rushed to get on the boat. The poems also look back on slavery and individual experiences of hardship and trying to make a living.