Linton Kwesi JohnsonIn Conversation: Time Come

Linton Kwesi Johnson is revered as the world’s first reggae poet and his influence and popularity are widespread. With the radical and resounding Dread Beat An’ Blook, Inglan Is a Bitch, Tings An’ Times and a stream of vinyl, his perspectives on Britain are gutsy critiques.As a new book collects his non-fiction writing, the time has come to celebrate another side of the revered modern poet Linton Kwesi Johnson.Queen Elizabeth Hall