The poems in Moving On recreate moments of change, loss and epiphany. There are vivid glimpses of a prewar Jamaican Childhood- of sexual discovery under a billiard table and of the rude ingratitude of a goat saved from dissection in the school biology lab. The long sequence, ‘Goodbye Aristotle, So long America', explores the years of study at a Jesuit university in America and the making both of a lifetime's values and of the sense of irony which has made it possible to live with them