CLIFTON JOSEPH "DUB POET EXTRODINAIRE...."

CLIFTON JOSEPH - MC, HOST, DUB POET, JOURNALIST.....ANTIGUAN ROOTS.....GLOBAL ADDRESS.  TO BOOK FOR EVENTS CONTACT: creationfamilyinternational@gmail.com  VISIT THE FOLLOWING LINKS www.myspace.com/creationfamilyinternational 

http://www.youtube.com/creationfamilyint 

http://www.dubpoetscollective.com/clifton-joseph

dubzz/poet/at/large! POET/JOURNALIST

Born Antigua, West Indies

has written for newspapers includingCONTRAST, NOW, THE TORONTO STAR, THE GLOBE AND MAIL

for magazines such as WORD, FUSE, THIS, TORONTO LIFE

for radio with CKLN, CIUT, CBC RADIO

for television: producer/host with TVOntario’s literary program IMPRINT;
pop culture columnist for CTV’s E-NOW; movie reviewer for CANADA AM; for CBC’S undercurrents, Big Life With Daniel Richler, Sunday Morning Live, The National, Sunday and Marketplace

In poetry Joseph is one of the founders of the dub poetry movement in Canada and has performed widely across Canada, the United States, the United Kingdom and the West Indies; published Metropolitan Blues, a book of poems; released an album of poetry & music, Oral Trans/missions; CD/single Shots On Eglinton; videopoems Pimps and  Survival (In The City); penned poems for CBC Radio and TV, for Michael Douglas’ short film Blu Shifts Desire and Steve Williams’s movie debut Songs In The Key Of Life; and has contributed to a number of written and audio anthologies including De Dub Poets (with Lillian Allen and Devon Haughton with the Truths and Rights Band); for Virgin Records’ Word Up CD of North American spoken word poets; Poetry Nation and Work

AWARDS/NOMINATIONS:
Juno and Gemini Awards nominee;

Silver Fleece Award at the Chicago International Film Festival
for the TVO-produced Dub Poets documentary;

Two-time Gemini Award winner

Two-time Best Dub Poet Award and
Peter Tosh Memorial Award winner
at the Canadian Reggae Music Awards

New York TV Festival Silver Award

A Time Inc. “Freddie Awards” Gold winner for Health Reporting

Bronze Plaque (for Rhyme Pays: Hip Hop and the Marketing of Cool) and
Honorable Mention (for The problem with Boys)

from The Columbus International Film and Video Festival

MEMBERSHIP:
Dub Poets Collective
The League of Canadian Poets
The Canadian Writers Guild
ACTRA

CONTACT:
email: clifton.joseph@hotmail.com