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Michael Smith: Jamaica Killing

Mick Brown, The Guardian, 26 August 1983

MICHAEL SMITH, internationally acclaimed as Jamaica's foremost "dub" poet, was murdered last week, apparently a victim of Jamaica's turbulent and violent political climate. Smith, who was 29, had won growing international recognition for his poetry about ghetto life.

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