Dread Poetry and Freedom
Austin, David![Dread Poetry and Freedom](https://support.digitalhusky.com/media/annotations/sorted/268/26867051/CHSBZCOP0326867051.jpg)
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 a...