Dread Poetry and Freedom: Linton Kwesi Johnson and the Unfinished Revolution by David Austin

Dread Poetry and Freedom: Linton Kwesi Johnson and the Unfinished Revolution

David Austin

272 pages first pub 2018 (editions)

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In the 1970s and ’80s, Linton Kwesi Johnson was fighting neo-fascism and promoting socialism, and putting pen to paper to refute W. H. Auden’s claim that “poetry makes nothing happen.” Dread Poetry and Freedom explores Johnson’s work through the r...

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