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“... rough at the edges. He writes more fluently in dialect, but not with the sing-song confidence of Benjamin Zephaniah. Many of his poems recapture moments from childhood; others feature a larger-than-life mother/grandmother called Mama Dot, whose love, humour, stoicism and superstition are proper cause for celebration: Old Mama Dot old mama Dot boss a de ...”

“... Jhemar could learn about simile and internal rhymes. Thapar got him to read ‘The British’ by Benjamin Zephaniah and ‘Half-Caste’ by John Agard. Jhemar was surprised to hear Thapar describe himself as ‘mixed-race’; he’d only heard Black people use the term.Thapar is honest about his mistakes. When a teenager was murdered near the community ...”

“... he saw being rekindled in the National Socialist imagination – and with the concerns of Walter Benjamin, whose backward-looking ‘angel of history’ has been widely perceived as the emblem of a discontinuous age in which the past can be secured in the present only through a measure of aestheticisation. By 1969, Henderson was speaking with justified pride ...”