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Dread Poetry and Freedom - Linton Kwesi Johnson and the Unfinished Revolution (Hardcover)
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Dread Poetry and Freedom - Linton Kwesi Johnson and the Unfinished Revolution (Hardcover)
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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'. In Dread Poetry and Freedom - the first
book dedicated to the work of this 'political poet par excellence'
- David Austin explores the themes of poetry, political
consciousness and social transformation through the prism of
Johnson's work. Drawing from the Bible, reggae and Rastafari, and
surrealism, socialism and feminism, and in dialogue with Aime
Cesaire and Frantz Fanon, C.L.R. James and Walter Rodney, and
W.E.B. Du Bois and the poetry of d'bi young anitafrika, Johnson's
work becomes a crucial point of reflection on the meaning of
freedom in this masterful and rich study. In the process, Austin
demonstrates why art, and particularly poetry, is a vital part of
our efforts to achieve genuine social change in times of dread.
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