Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

Linton Kwesi Johnson NPG x137966

© Norman McBeath / National Portrait Gallery, London

by Norman McBeath

Reggae poet, broadcaster and recording artist. Jamaican-born Johnson came to London in 1963. Educated at Tulse Hill Secondary School, he later studied Sociology at Goldsmith's College, University of London. He helped to organise a poetry workshop at school. He joined a group called Black Panthers. developing his own work with Rasta Love, a group of poets and drummers. Awarded a C Day Lewis Fellowship (1977), he became the writer-in-residence for the London Borough of Lambeth in the same year. His first poem appeared in the... more

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

Images are printed in their original proportions, within a white border.