Once you have a disease like cancer, you look at life a bit differently. Some things that were important no longer seem as important as they were.
I am often asked why I started to write poetry. The answer is that my motivation sprang from a visceral need to creatively articulate the experiences… - Linton Kwesi Johnson
I am often asked why I started to write poetry. The answer is that my motivation sprang from a visceral need to creatively articulate the experiences…
- Linton Kwesi Johnson
Writing was a political act and poetry was a cultural weapon. - Linton Kwesi Johnson
Writing was a political act and poetry was a cultural weapon.
I wrote two poems about the 81 uprisings: Di Great Insohreckshan and Mekin Histri. I wrote those two poems from the perspective of those who had take… - Linton Kwesi Johnson
I wrote two poems about the 81 uprisings: Di Great Insohreckshan and Mekin Histri. I wrote those two poems from the perspective of those who had take…
I have never, ever sought validation from the arbiters of British poetic taste. - Linton Kwesi Johnson
I have never, ever sought validation from the arbiters of British poetic taste.
....the popular music of Jamaica, the music of the people, is an essentially experiential music, not merely in the sense that the people experience t… - Linton Kwesi Johnson
....the popular music of Jamaica, the music of the people, is an essentially experiential music, not merely in the sense that the people experience t…
I don't go to see bands any more because I've got tinnitus, so I have to avoid loud music. You get used to it, but when it's quiet you hear a constan… - Linton Kwesi Johnson
I don't go to see bands any more because I've got tinnitus, so I have to avoid loud music. You get used to it, but when it's quiet you hear a constan…
The more I read my poems, the more I find out about them. I still read them with the same passion I felt when I wrote them as a young man. - Linton Kwesi Johnson
The more I read my poems, the more I find out about them. I still read them with the same passion I felt when I wrote them as a young man.
Once you have a disease like cancer, you look at life a bit differently. Some things that were important no longer seem as important as they were. - Linton Kwesi Johnson
Back in those early days when I began my apprenticeship as a poet, I also tried to voice our anger, spirit of defiance and resistance in a Jamaican p… - Linton Kwesi Johnson
Back in those early days when I began my apprenticeship as a poet, I also tried to voice our anger, spirit of defiance and resistance in a Jamaican p…
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