Written over a 5 year period, the highly original poems and experiments with form in ‘Bird Head Son’ cover the poet’s ‘1st life’ in Trinidad, beginning with his departure from Trinidad to the UK in 1989, the poems are divided into 6 sections, each considering an aspect of the poet’s experience of Trinidad life in the 1970s and 80s. "syncopated prosody, surreal imagery and Trinidadian speech patterns. -- The Oxford Companion to Modern Poetry in English