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            clifton joseph is a poet and journalist living in toronto. He's authoured 
            a book of poetry, "metropolitan blues"; produced "oral trans/missions", 
            an album of poetry with music by the livestock band; a cd-single of 
            the poem "shots on eglinton"; the video-poem "pimps"; his work has 
            been included in a number of spoeken and written anthologies including 
            vehicule press' "poetry nation" and "word up", virgin records' compilation 
            of north american spoken word poets. his video-poem "(survival)in 
            the city" was aired by muchmusic as part of their videopoems series. 
            Joseph has performed widely around toronto, across canada, in the 
            u.s., u.k. and the Caribbean. 
            
           Clifton 
            is also a founding member of the Dub Poets Collective.