How Anger, Humour and Politics Shaped and Shattered Gil Scott-Heron

Wednesday is about books and/or writing. Today it's both. Here's an academic essay I wrote recently about the (printed) words of Gil Scott-Heron and the poetics of his work.

I know I’ve mentioned this previously, but I’m studying at uni again, doing a paper towards an Honours degree in English. The paper is around modern poetry, both the writing of our own original work and the analysis of 20th and 21st Century poetic forms. I wrote my first essay about the poetry of Gil Scott Heron and the poetics that informed his work. I…