Time Come by Linton Kwesi Johnson audiobook review – effortless prose from the radical poet | Linton Kwesi Johnson
Linton Kwesi Johnson is best known for 1975’s Dread Beat an’ Blood, the book of poetry he later recorded as an album, setting the verse against a dub reggae backdrop and releasing it under the moniker Poet and the Roots. More albums followed, with Johnson becoming known as the “dub poet”, though he is also a prolific writer of prose, as illustrated by Time Come, a collection of essays, obituaries and speeches spanning 45 years.Divided into sections covering music, literature, politics, places and people, the book finds…