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David Austin

Dread Poetry and Freedom

Linton Kwesi Johnson and the Unfinished Revolution

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What is the relationship between poetry and social change? Standing at the forefront of political poetry since the 1970s, Linton Kwesi Johnson has been fighting neo-fascism, police violence and promoting socialism while putting pen to paper to refute W.H. Auden's claim that 'poetry makes nothing happen'. For Johnson, only the second living poet to have been published in the Penguin Modern Classics series, writing has always been 'a political act' and poetry 'a cultural weapon'. In Dread Poetry and Freedom - the first book dedicated to the work of this 'political poet par excellence' - David Austin explores the themes of poetry, political cons… Mehr

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  • ISBN: 978-0-7453-3814-9
  • EAN: 9780745338149
  • Produktnummer: 26867051
  • Verlag: Pluto Press
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • Erscheinungsjahr: 2018
  • Seitenangabe: 306 S.
  • Masse: H22.2 cm x B14.5 cm x D2.1 cm 544 g
  • Abbildungen: HC gerader Rücken kaschiert
  • Gewicht: 544

Über den Autor


David Austin is the author of Dread Poetry and Freedom: Linton Kwesi Johnson and the Unfinished Revolution (Pluto, 2018) and the editor of Moving Against the System, The 1968 Congress of Black Writers and the Making of Global Consciousness (Pluto, 2018). He is the winner of the 2014 Casa de las Americas Prize.

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