Kissing Other People or the House of Fame wilde dood Pioneering poet Linton Kwesi Johnson

Pioneering poet Linton Kwesi Johnson has revolutionized English literature with his electrifying fusion of oral verse

an aversion to received ideas and conventions

hair as a metonym for the self in poetry and fiction

they lift up and lay down a revealing sequence of masks and mirrors that disturb the reflection of authority

Kissing Other People or the House of Fame wilde dood Pioneering poet Linton Kwesi JohnsonKay Gabriel where when youre back well be having rice and pulses hold in gasses kiss and flip off the one or two remaining pigs A book in two halves, Kissing Other People or the House of Fame opens with a sequence of poems that roam the grotty, sublime streets: patting rats, reading pamphlets, enduring labour, acquiring falafel, waving to friends. Then the book flips on a seam and invokes Chaucer as an unlikely guide through a series of dream blocks,