Riddim & Riddles throbs with the heartbeat and drum beat of Jamaica. The poems evoke vivid vibrant images that capture the diversity of contemporary Jamaica, moving from the cool, majestic Blue Mountains to the hot, bloodied streets of Kingston. The collection deals with urgent social insights about masculinity, the environment and how history continues to impact the present. The poems included in Riddim & Riddles mark Owen Blakka Ellis as a clear inheritor of dub, poetry and music, but with a distinctive voice of his own.