| Thurs
10 July
An exclusive spoken word performance with the world's leading dub
poet!
Supported by local writer Louisa Adjoa
Exeter Phoenix 7.30pm, £15 (£14conc.)
Linton will recite classic lyrics which raised the consciousness
of a generation and other literary gems. Local writer Louisa Adjoa
will also present her challenging work.
Linton Kwesi Johnson is so highly regarded across the world, this
range of glowing quotes from diverse sources says it all…
'...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.
'...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
'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 |
