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Linton kwesi johnson

 
 
astrojax69
02:32 / 26.04.07
now this guy is a dude dub poet. sadly, don't seem to be so much about him in the ether, so was wondering if anyone out there had ever stumbled on a site with some of his lyrics / poems (esp 'dread beat and blood', his fabulous first album)

i want to put them to a work poetry reading group - we decided to look at lyrics as poems and i want to continue a theme i've been at in this group with patois, or at least having language read as it is sounded, to give a sense of speaking by the character.

lkj is full of this! and he is a wondrous poet, but i can't remember all of his stuff, and the vinyl copy of db&b i had seems to have eluded my collection somewhere over the last ten or twelve years (with xtc's 'english settlement', dammit!)

anyway, others have opinions and experience of this great artist? i could cross-post this in 'creation' to get poets talking about it, but would that be useful?
 
 
Jack Fear
03:40 / 26.04.07
sadly, don't seem to be so much about him in the ether

You've tried searching using the correct spelling of his name?
 
 
astrojax69
05:35 / 27.04.07
oh yeah, that might help... thanks , jack. s'been a long time!

...sadly, it doesn't. d'oh. some good links however.
 
 
Mon Oncle Ignatius
15:10 / 28.04.07
(Mod hat on: If no-one minds, I'm going to put the title of this thread up for correction of the spelling of LKJ's name.)

Part of the difficulty with finding LKJ lyrics/poems online is probably to do with copyright, as many are collected in Inglan Is A Bitch and Mi Revalueshanary Fren: Selected Poems - the latter in Penguin Classics.

So it might be quite unlikely that you'll find them in digital format. Could you order the books through your local library?
 
 
sleazenation
16:47 / 18.05.07
how about this