ABSTRACT
Roger Robinson, a Trinidadian born poet, rapper, singer, writer of fiction, and teacher of poetry. This chapter presents the story of Roger Robinson's cultural development as an artist and educator. Experience of black Atlantic migration has taught him that hip hop culture derives its potency not from any primal urge to centre or cohere but from its indeterminate substance and powers of dislocation. The chapter analyses the key literary, social, and affective influences from his formative years on a moral and political outlook marked by a 'double consciousness'. It traces Roger's initiation into London's post-hip hop scene, and explores his work as teacher of poetry to working-class young people of colour. For Roger it was easy to speak about what it is to be a writer and a teacher. The big irony of course is that Roger himself is both a good poet and a teacher with exacting standards.
