A special evening with Clifton Joseph Dubzz-Poet-at-Large

Clifton Joseph Dubzz-Poet-at-Large will be performing LIVE on Wednesday, March 25, 2026 at the Bar Stage at The Coda, 751 View Street. Doors open 6 pm. Show 6:30-8:30 pm. Tickets $20. All ticket holders will get a FREE ecopy of his hit “Shots on Eglinton” Tickets available at: https://gotothecoda.com/calendar

A prolific and original writer, performer and personality, clifton joseph, has been instrumental in shaping and developing the dub poetry movement in Canada. For decades, he’s performed across Canada, the United States, the UK, the Caribbean and Africa.

His first volume of poetry, Metropolitan Blues, launched his career as one of the originators of the dub poetry art form in Canada. He released the successful Oral Trans/missions album; a CD single, Shots on Eglinton as well as creating a number of video poems such as Pimps and Survival (In The City). His poems have been anthologized in numerous written and audio compilations, including De Dub Poets with poets Lilian Allen and Devon Haughton with the Truths & Rights Reggae Band, Poetry Nation, Vehicule Press’s Paen to the spoken/word performance poetry movement, and Word Up, Virgin Records’ CD of North American spoken word poets as well as the accompanying Word Up poem-video series commissioned by and aired on Much Music, (Canada’s equivalent to the USA’s MTV).

Additionally, Joseph has performed at many major music festivals like Bumbershoot in Seattle, USA and the Vancouver Music Festival. He also has a long track record of multiple appearances at numerous universities, including the storied Harvard University.