Binding: Hardcover
Description: A Financial Times Music Book of the Year 2023 Key to understanding black British history - Sunday Times Sharp and still relevant - Zadie Smith Recognized as one of the great poets of modern times and as a deeply respected and influential political and cultural activist and social critic Linton Kwesi Johnson is also a prolific writer of non - fiction. In Time Come he selects some of his most powerful prose – book and record reviews published in newspapers and magazines lectures obituaries and speeches – for the first time. Written over many decades it is a body of work that draws creatively and critically on Johnson’s own Jamaican roots and on Caribbean history to explore the politics of race that continue to inform the Black British experience. Ranging from reflections on the place of music in Caribbean and Black British culture as a creative defiant response to oppression to his penetrating appraisals of music and literature and including warm tributes paid to the activists and artists who inspired him to find his own voice as a poet and compelled him to contribute to the struggle for racial equality and social justice Time Come is a panorama of an exceptional life. A collection that ventures into memoir it underscores Johnson’s enduring importance in Britain’s cultural history and reminds us of his brilliant unparalleled legacy. With an introduction by Paul Gilroy author of There Ain't No Black in the Union Jack A mosaic of wise urgent and moving pieces - Kit de Waal As necessary as ever - The Observer A book to be savoured and re - read - Derek Owusu An outstanding collection - Caryl Phillips A necessary book from a writer who continues to inspire - Yomi Sode Incisive engaging fearless - Gary Younge
Title: Time Come Selected Prose
Author(s): Johnson Linton Kwesi
Publisher: Pan Macmillan
Barcode: 9781035006328
Pages: 336 Pages
Publication Date: 12/5/2023
Category: Social Issues & Processes