WoWFest are honoured once again to host legendary poet, activist, and cultural critic, Linton Kwesi Johnson, as he discusses his latest book, Time Come.
This selection of prose reflects Johnson’s Jamaican roots and his experiences as a black British writer spanning five decades. The work features book and record reviews, lectures, obituaries, and speeches that explore the politics of race and black British experience.
Linton will discuss his reflections on the place of music in Caribbean and black British culture as a creative, defiant response to oppression, as well as his penetrating appraisals of music, film, and literature. He will also pay tribute to the activists and artists who inspired him to find his own voice as a poet and contributed to the struggle for racial equality and social justice.
Interviewing Linton is Paul Reid, Paul is the interim head of the International Slavery Museum (ISM) for National Museums Liverpool (NML) and a former director of the Black Cultural Archives (BCA) in London. Reid was the BCA director for more than 10 years, before stepping down in 2019. He has since set up an arts agency, Disrupt Space, which represents Black visual artists. Reid is a champion of community-led regeneration, equality, justice and how the role that the arts play in these areas.
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