Entries from June 2007 ↓

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Back in the early eighties when I was learning to read for pleasure because the lives of black people were not reflected on British TV, I would recite The Politics of Rich Painters and other similar poetry to any and everybody who cared to listen.

A few years later, when I first started to write, no wonder my thoughts were filled with the language and imagery of Amiri Baraka and the “agit-prop” tones of the Black Power Movement. To my family, friends, and colleagues in our part of multi-racial London, I was generally considered a very angry young man. “Too black, too out-spoken, too political.” Continue reading →

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