Selected Poems

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"A living legend." —PEN Pinter Prize judges
"With fiery verse and spellbinding, often reggae-backed, performances, the Jamaican-born, London-based Johnson helped create the hybrid genre of dub poetry in the late 1970s. Mixing militancy with pathos, ballad forms with subtler narrative modes; LKJ (as he's known) remains a leading voice of Afro-Caribbean Britain." —Publishers Weekly on Mi Revalueshanary Frens"These grainy, darkly lit snapshots. . .(make) LKJ one of the preeminent documentarians of the African diaspora." — SF Weekly on Mi Revalueshanary Frens

STRIKING NEW REISSUE to publish in line with KWESI JOHNSON'S 70th BIRTHDAY: with an iconic new cover design, new introduction by Gary Younge and afterword by Linton Kwesi Johnson that brings his resonant and important work into the present

LINTON KWESI JOHNSON, the world's first dub poet: a cultural icon and huge name in black political activism in the 80s, his poetry has been in print for 20 years, he was awarded the 2020 PEN/Pinter Prize and he has toured the world as a musician

'A warrior wordsmith whose couplets take no prisoners' The Times; 'Brilliant' Time Out;

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