Vivid, telling and in tune with young people, this poetry collection is by someone who spent years as a runaway living on the streets of London and contains social insights, key messages for law and order, crime and punishment. Justin Rollins has a remarkable ability. His poems emerge not from agonising over a blank sheet of paper, but in rap-like fashion, in full-flow and in their complete form. This collection takes the reader on a journey on which those familiar with his autobiographical "The Lost Boyz" will recognise the landmarks as the streets and characters of his native south-London once again spring into life. But this is fresh and captivating work. It deals with the everyday effects of disadvantage, the tensions of wealth and poverty, freedom and incarceration with glimpses of a sometimes dark past, motivational now and uncertain though optimistic future. What registers strongly is Rollins' eye for detail, injustice, the telling remark, the eccentric, the absurd, clandestine...

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