Benjamin Zephaniah - A Poet Called... - Interview by IaIn McNay - 2008

Born and raised in Birmingham’s rough and ready Handsworth district, Benjamin Zephaniah is a British Jamaican Rastafarian writer, musician and poet. His stature in contemporary English literature was underlined by his inclusion in The Times list of Britain's top 50 post-war writers in 2008. Iain McNay invites Benjamin to reveal the many sides of his talent, going back to his first word-play as a child and moving on through a brush with the law, his move to London and riding the wave of post-punk culture through to meeting Nelson Mandela and more. Oh, and expect the occasional poem!

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Love, love, love Benjamin Zephaniah, hi, lovely!!! Cas x

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very cleaver man,a poet and he knows it, Benjamin seen on t,v central News with bob and Sammy,

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I know him I a know him he is I. My shoot

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Cat, mat,rat ,fat .Nat,sat ,some words he might like to use .