Description
Dread Beat and Blood
Author: Linton Kwesi Johnson
Publisher: Bogle – L’Ouverture (1976)
Edition: First
Cover: Paperback
Condition: One sticky label mark and three small fox marks to front cover. Otherwise, the book is in good condition.
Dread Beat and Blood (First Edition)
£50.00
Dread Beat and Blood (First Edition)
Linton Kwesi Johnson, often credited as the inventor of dub poetry, delivered this seminal collection of poetry in 1976 during a period of deep unrest across the United Kingdom. Adapted as an album in 1978, with reggae backing tracks, the collection was a powerful exploration of the situation of black British youth at the time. Its prescient vision of racial tension and conflict remains relevant to this day.
