Linton Kwesi Johnson - Selected Poems

His poems, which use Caribbean dialect and the rhythms of reggae and dub, are a powerful voice of disaffected dissent and radical politics. In 1977 he was awarded the Cecil Day Lewis Fellowship as a writer in residence in the London Borough of Lambeth. He went on to the Keskidee Arts Centre as a Library Resources and Education Officer. In 2003 Linton Kwesi Johnson received an Honorary Fellowship from his alma mater, Goldsmiths College. In 2005 he was awarded a Silver Musgrave Medal for distinguished eminence in the field of poetry by the Institute of Jamaica. His other volumes and albums of poems include Forces of Victory (1979), Bass Culture (1980), Inglan is a Bitch (1980), Making History (1984), Tings an Times (1991) and More Time (1998).

In 2004 he released his first ever DVD, LKJ Live in Paris with the Dennis Bovell Dub Band. Linton Kwesi Johnson continues to perform internationally and his work has been translated into Italian and German. He also has his own record label, LKJ Records, and his own music publishing company, LKJ Music Publishers. Selected Poems LINTON KWESI JOHNSON PENGUIN BOOKS PENGUIN BOOKS Published by the Penguin Group Penguin Books Ltd, 80 Strand, London WC2R 0RL , England Penguin Group (USA) Inc., 375 Hudson Street, New York, New York 10014, USA Penguin Group (Canada), 90 Eglinton Avenue East, Suite 700, Toronto, Ontario, Canada M4P 2Y3 (a division of Pearson Penguin Canada Inc.) Penguin Ireland, 25 St Stephens Green, Dublin 2, Ireland (a division of Penguin Books Ltd) Penguin Group (Australia), 250 Camberwell Road, Camberwell, Victoria 3124, Australia (a division of Pearson Australia Group Pty Ltd) Penguin Books India Pvt Ltd, 11 Community Centre, Panchsheel Park, New Delhi 110 017, India Penguin Group (NZ), cnr Airborne and Rosedale Roads, Albany, Auckland 1310, New Zealand (a division of Pearson New Zealand Ltd) Penguin Books (South Africa) (Pty) Ltd, 24 Sturdee Avenue, Rosebank, Johannesburg 2196, South Africa Penguin Books Ltd, Registered Offices: 80 Strand, London WC2R 0RL , England www.penguin.com First published as Mi Revalueshanary Fren in Penguin Classics 2002 Reissued under the new title with additional material in Penguin Books 2006 Copyright Linton Kwesi Johnson, 2002, 2006 All rights reserved The moral right of the author has been asserted Di Anfinish Revalueshan was first published in 1991 in Tings an Times (Bloodaxe Books and LKJ Music Publishers Except in the United States of America, this book is sold subject to the condition that it shall not, by way of trade or otherwise, be lent, re-sold, hired out, or otherwise circulated without the publishers prior consent in any form of binding or cover other than that in which it is published and without a similar condition including this condition being imposed on the subsequent purchaser ISBN: 978-0-14-194137-0 To my mother