![]() Peel played a few tracks from the dub poet in the 80's and included her track, Aid Travels With A Bomb, in the 1987 radio documentary, Rebel Yell. ![]() Returning to London in September 1985, she earned a certificate of education at Garnett College (1987), and taught Theatre Studies at Brixton College, but after two years' teaching she left in order to be able to perform full-time. She first visited London early in 1985, at the invitation of Linton Kwesi Johnson, to make her debut UK performance at the International Book Fair of Radical Black and Third World Books on 19 March that year. She moved to Kingston in 1978 to study at the Jamaican School of Drama, where she met Michael Smith, Oku Onuora, and Mutabaruka. She performed her work around the world, in the Caribbean, North America, Europe, South-East Asia and Africa, and has been called "one of the most important, influential performance poets of recent years".īreeze was born and raised in rural Jamaica, growing up in Patty Hill, a small village in the hills of Hanover Parish. She worked also as a theatre director, choreographer, actor and teacher. Jean "Binta" Breeze MBE (11 March 1956 – 4 August 2021) was a Jamaican dub poet and storyteller. For the dancehall artist of the same name, see Breeze(3)) ![]() For the American hip hop artist, see Breeze). He provides information about the production of and response to these poems and analyses their textual strategies, showing all his skills in poetry explication. (This page is about the Jamaican dub poet. Johnson, Oku Onuora, Mutabaruka, Benjamin Zephaniah, Michael Smith and Lillian Allen.
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