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Lillian Allen

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Jamaican-born, Toronto-based dub poet who moved to Canada in 1974, released her debut recording Dub Poet in 1983, and won the Juno Award for Best Reggae/Calypso Recording for Revolutionary Tea Party (1986) and Conditions Critical (1988), later serving as Toronto’s seventh poet laureate.

Lillian Allen at La Vitrola, MontrealBull-Doser · Public domain · Source ↗

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Story · Well supportedThe women of dub poetry and the spoken word

Jamaican-born women carried dub poetry's reasoning voice from Kingston yards to Toronto stages and a Halifax poet laureateship.

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