Linton Kwesi Johnson

Linton Kwesi Johnson

Biographies:

Interviews:

With Stephen Davis, 1982
With Mick Sinclair, 1985 (Mick Sinclair Archive)
With Burt Caesar, 11 June 1996
With Jason Gross, January 1997 (Perfect Sound Forever)
With Amy Goodman and Juan Gonzalez, August 7, 1998 (Pacifica Radio's Democracy Now!) (also February 24, 2000)
With Klaus Ludes (of Classical Reggae Interviews), September 5, 1998 (text and RealAudio)
With Nancy Rawlinson, December 1998 (Spike Magazine; shorter version at Do Tongues)
With Judy Hacker, 1999 (Reggae Source) (Includes RealAudio excerpts from several albums)
With The Uprising, May 25, 1999 (ireggae.com) (RealAudio)
With Yuri Prasad, May 2002 (Socialist Review)
With Trace Magazine
With The World's Marco Werman, March 7, 2005 (RealAudio)
With Nicholas Wroe (London Guardian 8 March 2008)

Feature Articles and Criticism:

Maya Jaggi, "Why Linton is blowing his top" (London Guardian, 26 April 1999) and "Poet on the front line" (London Guardian 4 May 2002)
Peter Hitchcock, "'It Dread Inna Inglan': Linton Kwesi Johnson, Dread, and Dub Identity" (Postmodern Culture 4:1 [September 1993]) (alternate version)
Raphaël Costambeys-Kempczynski, "Linton Kwesi Johnson and the Eloquence of Rioters" (PopMatters 16 January 2009)

Discographies:

Media:

Video: LKJ performs "If I Woz A Top Notch Poet" (London Guardian)
Video: LKJ performs "Fite Dem Back" and other poems (DailyMotion.com)
LKJ on YouTube
Podcast: "Linton Kwesi Johnson: Reggae's Premier Poet" (NPR/WXPN's World Cafe)