Amryl Johnson's work trying to articulate the sometimes painful movement between cultures that affects many migrants to Britain. Her premature death at age 56 saw a Guardian obituary which said ' she had a very powerful presence on stage, but was also able to engage and enthuse an audience, to involve them in the event that was her performance. No one who ever saw her perform what she called her poem-song, Far and High, was left unchallenged or unmoved.'