***** Linton Kwesi Johnson, Tings an’ Times (Shanachie): This is the first studio album from Linton Kwesi Johnson in six years. It’s only seven songs – but what songs. Johnson’s thoughtful ...

Linton Kwesi Johnson, supreme dub and reggae artist, one of only two living poets ever to appear in the Penguin Modern Classics series, is one of the star turns at Lee "Scratch" Perry's Meltdown ...

Often hailed as the world's first reggae poet, Linton Kwesi Johnson was born in Jamaica in 1952, but moved to London in the '60s to study writing and poetry. He started releasing albums of his own ...

The father of dub poetry, Linton Kwesi Johnson, has won the 2012 Golden PEN Award, awarded annually to an accomplished writer, resident in Britain, whose work has had “a profound impact on readers, ...

Linton Kwesi Johnson is sharing his major literary prize with a fellow poet believed to be in a maximum security prison. Thursday, 27 February 2025. ePaper; Newsletters; Puzzles; Our Journalism; ...

Linton Kwesi Johnson was born in Jamaica in 1952 and emigrated to Britain in 1963. He settled with his mother and father in Brixton, London. After studying sociology at Goldsmiths College, London, he ...

Linton Kwesi Johnson travelled to Britain from Jamaica as a boy in 1963. He came to join his mother in South London, who had emigrated as part of the Windrush Generation, named after the ship that ...

When Jamaican-born dub poet Linton Kwesi Johnson immigrated to the U.K. as a child, the country didn't quite live up to the "England" he had pictured in his imagination.

The legendary Linton Kwesi Johnson, renowned as the voice of Britain's post-Windrush Generation and who pretty much single-handedly defined the term“ ...

Linton Kwesi Johnson is sharing his major literary prize with a fellow poet believed to be in a maximum security prison. The writer and musician won the PEN Pinter Prize 2020 in memory of playwright ...

Linton Kwesi Johnson is sharing his major literary prize with a fellow poet believed to be in a maximum security prison. The writer and musician won the PEN Pinter Prize 2020 in memory of ...