DesmondFaadaJohnson

Poet & Book Publisher

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Kamau Brathwaite - Caribbean Writers and Their Art: History, the Caribbean and the Imagination 1991 https://t.co/0xSyRVQCHK

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A Great Great Poet and Teacher. you always encouraged me and have been a massive influence. RIP. Edward Kamau Brathwaite obituary https://t.co/Uhf764wNLc

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Massive Congratulation @BernardineEvari, on winning the #BookerPrize2019 Nuff Respect!

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“The very serious function of racism … is distraction. It keeps you from doing your work. It keeps you explaining, over and over again, your reason for being. Somebody says you have no language and so you spend 20 years proving that you do...” Toni Morrison (RIP)

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Ole time sinting Come back again: 35 years of performance poetry https://t.co/VxV4eTMgM0

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Congratulations to Kazuo Ishiguro. Brilliant writer - Kazuo Ishiguro wins Nobel Literature Prize https://t.co/ZMImf5T9Sa

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Father of Caribbean Poetry. Was always there for help & advice to younger Poets. A principled man & a Great Poet. RIP James Berry 1924-2017

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RIP Derek Walcott. Great Great Poet! https://t.co/W66MgkBlzJ

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Derek Walcott, whose intricate poetry captured the beauty of the Caribbean and won the Nobel, has died at 87 https://t.co/avqovsUtZu

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"insects in union jacks, feeding on their own vomit, like a derranged bulldog resembling democracy, barking the stink of Inglan." DJ

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When the @SpursOfficial go marching in. #COYS

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"Every moves I make and every breath I take, I give thanks and praise to JAH, The Almighty!"

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Great Jamaican Writer, Children of Sisyphus, Harvard Professor Orlando Patterson - Honoured with Musgrave Gold Medal https://t.co/vRDd2BPCPu

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Mi haffe stop nyam chips outa newspaper
Chewing at the corner of mi jawbone like a Cockney
'bout "allo mate" From Chips On Mi Tongue

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Nuff Respect! Marlon James wins the Man Booker prize 2015 http://t.co/wEkC1CpKiy

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Congratulations to Marlon James on making the Booker Prize shortlist! Here's our interview with him: https://t.co/sWtSjyCHQw

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The political Left and Right are so close together, that the squeezed middle/centre is occupied not by policies but political accomodation.

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Toni Morrison: ‘I’m writing for black people … I don’t have to apologise’ http://t.co/FLgxE8v4Ln

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Pseudo-intellectuals will try to minimize the significance of our living history, like the epoch-making President @BarackObama visiting JA.

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In the 70s & 80s, Capitalism was seen as merciless, political wickedness. Now it's re-branded as Democracy & being sold all over the world.