With these unfortunate words a BBC commentator grudgingly greeted the news in 2002 that Linton Kwesi Johnson‘s poetry had been included into the Penguin Classics series. Today I went to hear him. Johnson recalled that misplaced put-down and other insults (the Daily Telegraph ran a frontpage story ‘Reggae Rebel joins Betjeman’) as he recalled his [...]
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Posted in Jamaica, Linton Kwesi Johnson, poetry on September 25, 2007 | 3 Comments »
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