Time Come: Selected Prose by Linton Kwesi Johnson Paul Sutherland Her poetry and prose move

Her poetry and prose move easily between the poised world of Western culture

His once celebrated red mouth opened briefly 'like an exotic flower' to complain of injustice and bourgeois vulgarity

and to empathise on an individual level with the many people who suffered

sometimes experimental

imaginative under- and over-world where myth and politics

Time Come: Selected Prose by Linton Kwesi Johnson Paul Sutherland Her poetry and prose move'Key to understanding black British history' Sunday Times 'Sharp and still relevant' Zadie Smith 'A mosaic of wise, urgent and moving pieces' Kit de Waal'As necessary as ever' The Observer Recognized as one of the great poets of modern times, and as a deeply respected and influential political and cultural activist and social critic, Linton Kwesi Johnson is also a prolific writer of non fiction. In Time Come, he selects some of his most powerful prose