<p><b>'Key to understanding black British history'</b> - <i>Sunday Times</i><br><b>'Sharp and still relevant'</b> - Zadie Smith<br><b>'A mosaic of wise, urgent and moving pieces'</b> - Kit de Waal<br><b>'As necessary as ever' </b>- <i>The Observer</i><br>________<br><br>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 <i>Time Come</i>, he selects some of his most powerful prose – book and record reviews published in newspapers and magazines, lectures, obituaries and speeches – for the first time. Written over many decades, it is a body of work that draws creatively and critically on Johnson’s own Jamaican roots and on Caribbean history to e