***** 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's Polite Reggae Rebellion. September 17, 2002. ... But Johnson's words are the sharpest of elbows, and at the 9:30 club on Sunday, the 50-year-old writer, ...

Linton Kwesi Johnson: Reggae's Premier Poet WXPN. February 1, 2007 • Often hailed as the world's first reggae poet, Johnson started releasing albums of his own poetry in 1978. He went on to ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

Poet Linton Kwesi Johnson been awarded an honorary doctorate degree in literature from Rhodes University in Grahamstown, South Africa. Johnson — a highly regarded poet, reggae artiste and p ...

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 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 ...