Linton Kwesi Johnson

Linton Kwesi Johnson OD born 24 August 1952 also known as LKJ is a Jamaicaborn Britishbased dub poet and activist In 2002 he became the second living poet and the only black one to be published in the Penguin Modern Classics series His performance poetry involves the recitation of his own verse in Jamaican patois over dubreggae usually written in collaboration with reggae producerartist Dennis Bovell