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This Jamaican expat (a resident of London since the early '80s) is the dub poet at the front of PUCKO Music. That's People's United for the Cause of Knowledge and Overstanding, and its project of properly tracing history and identity has a worthy leader. Pucko Music is a series of poems infused with reggae music, written from a new and powerful poetic form called "Cuss Poems". The Album is charged with the intensity of language; Nation Language. Desmond Faada Johnson uses powerful patterns of rhyme and poetic forms to deliver an excellent album of poetry and music. Pucko Music is influence by the oratory and potency of the Pocomina Churches in Jamaica. Most of the poems featured on Pucko Music were first published in Desmond FAADA Johnson's 1984 collection of Poetry – Deadly Ending Season and featured in The Story of English (Chapter 9) – BBC TV programme that Desmond FAADA Johnson presented. Pucko Poetry, was first br...