Road TripRoad Trip is a striking first collection by a poet with illuminating and entertaining stories to tell and an accomplished craft in using both traditional and contemporary forms in telling them. As a poet of Jamaican heritage, born and raised in north London and now working as a teacher, father of mixed race children, living in south Wales, Marvin Thompson brings together all those passages of place and time in fresh and revealing ways. He explores the

intelligent and thought-provoking

his publications include The Terrors (2009) and How To Build A City (2009)

watching the waves ashore

and however great the obstacles

in the words of Alexandre O’Neills famous poem Portugal “an ongoing discussion with myself”

and recently won the 2011 John Tripp Spoken Poetry Award

His poems have appeared in journals

conjuring a vision of England’s history and our human crossings

” – Sir Bobby Robson

Little sons

forgotten us

context both of time and Trinidadian society