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On this website I will take you through my world, inhabited with voices, images, sound and music. My writing is a compulsion. A fight with forces and a fight against forces to produce language and poetry that relish in the depth and eternal soul of the African. In my world, music is dominant. It is the guttural chants of the Drums, passion and the potent sounds of the mighty singers wailing to vibes of love, struggle, courage and righteousness. The poems were conceived in the vestibule of a peoples yearning for sound and power, empowering us beyond politics and the folly of Post Colonial life, with its distress and servitude lifestyles. |
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POEMS FROM DEADLY ENDING SEASON
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Deadly Ending Season has been published to much critical acclaim: Writing in Race Today Review 1985, Imruh Caesar said: "What is most striking in this his first book of poems, is his perception of life both in Britain and in Jamaica where he grew up. In fact this publication sets him apart from most of his contemporaries...Desmond Johnson is a young poet with a mature perception...an agile and confident writer."
"recommended." Jamaica Sunday Gleaner
"Desmond Johnson is most successful...has an original poignant quality." Valerie Bloom (City Limits)
"strength through experience shared is offered in Deadly Ending
Season...Desmond Johnson is articulate." West Indian World.
"He uses a patterned form of verse in which it takes shape and speak...from the bottom of his heart."
Artrage Magazine