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Linton Kwesi Johnson

December 2023

  • Linton Kwesi Johnson

    Audiobook of the week
    Time Come by Linton Kwesi Johnson audiobook review – effortless prose from the radical poet

    Johnson narrates his collection of essays about racial injustice, the Black British experience, and reggae as a potent force

July 2023

  • George the Poet photographed at Cutz Barbershop in Harlesden, West London. George Mpanga better known by his stage name George the Poet, is a British spoken-word artist with an interest in social and political issues.

    The Guardian view on spoken word poets: powerful voices that are needed today

    Editorial: Traditionally looked down on by the poetry establishment, those specialising in performance deserve their new chance to shine

April 2023

  • Linton Kwesi Johnson in 2020.

    Book of the day
    Time Come: Selected Prose by Linton Kwesi Johnson review – voice of a generation

  • Linton Kwesi Johnson performing in Amsterdam in 1980

    Time Come by Linton Kwesi Johnson review – 50 years of rhyme and rage

July 2022

  • Linton Kwesi Johnson

    Linton Kwesi Johnson: ‘I certainly did not see myself as an angry young black poet’

    The poet and activist’s life in verse has chronicled black British history. He talks about remaining hopeful, integrity, and taking 20 years to find his voice

February 2022

  • Sarah White, right, at the New Beacon bookshop in 2014 with the poet Linton Kwesi Johnson and the author Pauline Melville.

    Sarah White obituary

    Anti-racism activist and co-founder of New Beacon Books, Britain’s first specialist black bookshop and publishing company

November 2021

  • Dennis Bovell MBE is a Barbados-born reggae guitarist, bass player and record producer, based in England. He was a member of the British reggae band Matumbi, and released dub-reggae records under his own name as well as the pseudonym Blackbeard.

    This much I know
    Dennis Bovell: ‘I’m still angry about the six months I was jailed, wrongfully’

    The reggae musician and producer, 68, tells James McMahon about Bob Marley, Linton Kwesi Johnson, police intimidation, impressing his dad and writing songs in prison to vent his anger

August 2021

  • Jean Binta Breeze in 2014

    Jean ‘Binta’ Breeze obituary

    Poet who expressed female experience through dub and was a powerful performer of her own work

October 2020

  • John Cooper Clarke

    On my radar
    On my radar: John Cooper Clarke's cultural highlights

    The poet on vintage TV, elegant writing about architecture and Dylan’s endearing take on the Great American Songbook
  • Ahmet Altan is detained again on 12 November 2019 in Istanbul.

    Books blog
    Writers need PEN more than ever

    A century after the international association of writers was founded, authors are under unprecedented threat

    • Eritrean poet Amanuel Asrat named International Writer of Courage

    • Black people will not be respected until our history is respected

      Benjamin Zephaniah

    • Observer book of the week
      I Wanna Be Yours by John Cooper Clarke review – chapter and verse

July 2020

  • Observer New Review Poet Linton Kwesi Johnson photographed in Herne Hill.<br>Poet Linton Kwesi Johnson photographed in Herne Hill, London June 2020

    'Living legend' Linton Kwesi Johnson wins PEN Pinter prize

  • Benjamin Zephaniah: ‘After George Floyd died a lot of people were saying, That’s just America. No. No no no no.’

    Benjamin Zephaniah: 'Coppers were standing on my back and I thought: OK, I’m going to die here.’

June 2020

  • Clockwise from top left: Kayo Chingonyi, Grace Nichols, Raymond Antrobus, Malika Booker, Linton Kwesi Johnson, Vanessa Kisuule.

    Poetic justice: black lives and the power of poetry

    Leading black British poets including Linton Kwesi Johnson, Grace Nichol and Raymond Antrobus share their thoughts on protest, change and the trailblazers who inspired them

November 2019

  • King Midas Sound, KMS, press image 2019

    Blood, terror and bass: the heavy return of dub poetry

    It was the insurrectionist sound of the turbulent 70s – and now it’s back, thanks to Moor Mother and King Midas Sound

April 2018

  • APRIL-2018_LONDON: Saturday interview: Linton Kwesi Johnson, Dub poet . (Photograph by Graeme Robertson)

    Saturday interview
    Linton Kwesi Johnson: ‘It was a myth that immigrants didn’t want to fit into British society. We weren’t allowed’

    As the Jamaican-born dub poet reflects on decades of race relations in the UK, from the Brixton riots to Windrush, he says young black men carry knives out of fear, and questions how much progress we have made since his time as a teenage Black Panther

December 2012

  • Linton Kwesi Johnson

    Linton Kwesi Johnson wins Golden PEN award

    Pioneering 'dub poet' joins previous winners including Harold Pinter, JG Ballard and Doris Lessing

March 2012

  • People and power
    Linton Kwesi Johnson: 'Diane Abbott was right about divide and rule' – video

    Linton Kwesi Johnson talks to Oliver Laughland about the need for black people to have a strong voice outside the political system

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