by BBC Television performing "Mi Cyaan Believe It" for the documentary From Brixton To Barbados. In 1982, Smith took London by storm with performances at the Camden Centre for the International Book Fair of Radical Black and Third World Books, and also at Lambeth Town Hall in Brixton for "Creation for Liberation". While in Britain, together with Oku Onoura, Smith also did a successful poetry tour and recorded the Mi Cyaan Believe It album for Island Records. Smith is the subject of Peter Ashbourne's opera Reggae Opera Mikey. Death Smith was killed following a clash at a political rally at Stony Hill, St. Andrew on 17 August 1983 (Marcus Garvey's birthday); After arguing with three men he was hit by a stone thrown by one of them. Linton Kwesi Johnson has recalled how the circumstances of Smith's death are shrouded in controversy: "As far as I understand the facts, Mikey had attended a political meeting in Stony Hill where the ruling JLP Minister of Education was speaking and [he] had heckled her. The following day, he was confronted by three [persons believed to be] party activists, an argument ensued, stones were thrown and Mikey died from a blow to his head." Kamau Brathwaite's 1984 book History of the Voice was dedicated to the memory of Smith and describes him as having been 'stoned to death'. References External links Mi Cyaan Believe It 1954 births 1983 deaths 20th-century Jamaican poets Jamaican male poets Jamaican dub poets 20th-century male writers