Dance in the Light is a modern soul reinterpretation of my award-winning poem, winner of the 2025 MotorCitySixty Poetry Competition at Clevedon LitFest.

Re-voiced by community artist Edwin Honoret using Kits.ai, this version pays homage to the spirit of 1960s Motown — the sound that broke barriers, bridged races, and turned rhythm into resistance.

The original poem was written specifically for the competition celebrating the 60th anniversary of the 1965 Motown Revue’s UK tour. Judge Adam White, Grammy nominee and author of Motown: The Sound of Young America, described it as capturing how “prejudice was essentially made irrelevant — indeed, was banished — by the overriding power and universality of that music.”

Produced and arranged by Dennis Johnstone, this track brings those words to life in sound: freedom, dignity, persistence — and the beat that still unites us all.

Dance in the Light (Motown Soul Version)

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