Long Time No See
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Acknowledgements
I would like to thank the following people, texts and organisations for their help, which has been invaluable:
Michael Bucknor, Armando Celeyo, David Chang, Vincent Chang, Marcia Harford, Robert Hew, Jeanette Kong, Patrick Lee, Rupert Lewis, Daniel Lowe, Keith Lowe, Ken Lowe, Mickey Lowe, Parris Lyew-Ayee, Jock McGregor, Josephine Metcalf, Herbie Miller, Richard Price, Alan Robertson, John Siblon, Lorna Simms.
Mike Atherton, Gambling, London, Hodder and Stoughton, 2006.
Stewart Brown (ed), Caribbean Poetry Now, 2nd edn, London, Edward Arnold, 1992.
John Burnside, A Lie About My Father, London, Vintage, 2007.
Ray Chen, The Shopkeepers: Commemorating 150 years of the Chinese in Jamaica 1854–2004, Kingston, Periwinkle, 2005.
Cindy Hahamovitch, No Man’s Land: Jamaican Guestworkers in America and the Global History of Deportable Labor, Princeton, Princeton University Press, 2011.
Richard Hart, Towards Decolonisation: Political, Labour and Economic Developments in Jamaica, 1938–1945, Kingston, Canoe Press, 1997.
Andrea Levy, Small Island, London, Headline Review, 2004.
Mike Phillips and Trevor Phillips, Windrush: The Irresistible Rise of Multi-racial Britain, London, HarperCollins, 1998.
Alan Robertson, Joe Harriot: Fire in His Soul, London, Northway Publications, 2011.
Phillip Sherlock and Hazel Bennett (eds), The Story of the Jamaican People, Kingston, Ian Randle Publishers, 1998.
Marika Sherwood, Claudia Jones: A Life in Exile, London, Lawrence and Wishart, 2000.
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Douglas Thompson, The Hustlers: Gambling, Greed and the Perfect Con, London, Pan Macmillan, 2008.
Ian Thompson, The Dead Yard: A Story of Modern Jamaica, London, Faber and Faber, 2009.
Robert Winder, Bloody Foreigners: The Story of Immigration to Britain, London, Abacus, 2005.
Kerry Young, Pao, London, Bloomsbury, 2012.
The Alpha Boys’ School, Jamaica
The Arts Council of England
The Chinese Benevolent Association of Jamaica
The Institute of Jamaica
London Transport Museum
The Salvation Army
Scuola Holden, Turin
Seabrook Education and Cultural Centre, New Jersey
The University of the West Indies, Mona, Jamaica
Extracts from the following are reproduced by kind permission of the copyright holders:
The Schooner Flight, by Derek Walcott, copyright © Faber & Faber, 1980.
Island in the Sun, by Harry Belafonte and Irving Burgie, copyright © Hal Leonard, 2014
Rollin’ Calf, by Louise Bennett. The works of Louise Bennett is protected by copyright. Permission to use has been granted by the Executors: Judge Pamela Appelt & Fabian Coverley.
One Art, by Elizabeth Bishop, copyright © Chatto & Windus, 2004. Reproduced by permission of The Random House Group Ltd.
Ryecroft, by Ron Butlin, copyright © Bloodaxe Books, 1995.
Postscript
On my trip to Jamaica in 2013, I was briefly reunited with my father’s brother Ken (the young boy who visits the shop in the 1930s and tells Chick he’s his half-brother), later my uncle ‘Honey’ with whom we stay in Discovery Bay. Shortly after I returned home, I was very saddened to hear that Ken had been murdered in his house on the hill.
In memoriam, Kenneth ‘Honey’ Lowe 1931(?)–2013
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