The Coup Clock Ticks by Brian Meeks Hera Lindsay Bird and the lines are in

and the lines are in constant motion: approaching

who knew and loved the man and poet

childish behaviours

by the learned

The Coup Clock Ticks by Brian Meeks Hera Lindsay Bird and the lines are inThe poems in The Coup Clock Clicks were written between 1971 and 1988, reflecting the work of the then young political activist, poems challenging indifference, and mainly concerned to understand and, if possible, ameliorate the situation of others. It is also a personal memoir, shaped as autobiography. In reggae conscious free verse in Jamaican patwa, these poems are fierce, sometimes witty jeremiads against economic and socio cultural division,