Linton Kwesi Johnson
From Chapelton to Brixton, “LKJ” brought dub poetry to England and the world. Poems like “Five Nights of Bleeding” and “Bass Culture” (soundtracked by Dennis Bovell) are both rhythmic and polemic. —Erin MacLeod
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