October 18, 1998
'...the newest and most original poetic form to have emerged in the English language in the last quarter century' Fred D'Aguiar, poet and novelist
'...his poetry is meant to recoup lost structures, identities, pure "rhythm and roots", poetry integrating audience and performer in one collective voice' Cyril Dabydeen, World Literature Today
'One of Britain's most influential and original voices' The
Arts Council of England
'...a slick, varied and rousing reggae-poetry showcase, which promises to inject some new life into the British reggae movement' Robin Denselow, The Guardian, 1995
Dread Beat An ' Blood is 'reggae album of the year... Johnson details street life with authentic vigour' Melody Maker, 1978
'Linton's rhymes speak for our times... He's a poet that lets his words do the talking' The Voice, 1996
' .. one of the world's foremost black poets... an innovator and educator' Portland Press Herald, USA, 1990
'The name Linton Kwesi Johnson conjures up images of leadership, strong views and direction. He is the acknowledged head of the new wave of performance poets, whose words welded politics and social conscience with a potent challenge to those in power' Sharon Atkin,, The Caribbean Times, 1995
' The Black Londoners of the 1970s are no longer lonely in the old way, and Johnson is the first West Indian writer to document their new life styles and capture in verse rhythms the despairing apocalyptic mood, its menace and its mounting delusions' Professor Kenneth Ramchand, Trinidad and Tobago Review 1977
'Brilliant Jamaican poet - the alternative poet-laureate' Time
Out, 1996
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