With his trenchant lyrics, dub poet Mutabaruka is as unmistakable and stark in his work as in his appearance, notable for dreadlocks streaked down the middle with a swath of white hair. When he comes ...
Linton Kwesi Johnson (also known as LKJ) is a dub poet. Dub is an abstract form of reggae, and in the late '70s, Jamaican poets like Prince Far I and Mutabaruka used the echoing and reverberating dub ...
Jamaica and the world have lost another great dub poet, Klyde Brooks, originally Clyde Brooks, who was known to the world of poets as Durm-I. The ever-laughing poet and I shared a lot in common. We ...