Live & Loud 3: Linton Kwesi Johnson

Part of Plymouth International Book Festival 

Join world-renowned poet and recording artist Linton Kwesi Johnson for an hour of his remarkable poetry, followed by a Q & A with the audience.

Author of Voices of the Living and the Dead, Dread, Beat An' Blood and Tings An' Times: Selected Poems, Johnson’s poetry is mostly political, dealing with the experiences of black, working class life in Britain. In 2002 he became the second living poet, and the only black poet to be published in the Penguin Modern Classics series.

In 2005 Linton was awarded a silver Musgrave medal from the Institute of Jamaica for distinguished eminence in the field of poetry.

“His poetry is meant to recoup lost structures, identities, pure "rhythm and roots", poetry integrating audience and performer in one collective voice” -  Cyril Dabydeen, World Literature Today

£8