What is the relationship between poetry and social change?
Standing at the forefront of political poetry since the 1970s, Linton Kwesi Johnson has been fighting neo-fascism, police violence and promoting socialism while putting pen to paper to refute W.H. Auden’s claim that ‘poetry makes nothing happen’. For Johnson, only the second living poet to have been published in the Penguin Modern Classics series, writing has always been ‘a political act’ and poetry ‘a cultural weapon’.
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Acknowledgements
Preface
Prologue
1. The Poet’s Routes
2. Dread Dialectics
3. Dread Poetry and Freedom
4. Politics and Mourning in ‘Reggae fi Radni’
5. The Wise Old...
Giới thiệu về tác giả
David Austin is the author of Dread Poetry and Freedom: Linton Kwesi Johnson and the Unfinished Revolution (Pluto, 2018) and the editor of Moving Against the S...