A festival of “music, poetry, joy and laughter” has taken place to honour the trailblazing artist and activist Benjamin Zephaniah. The Handsworth-born dub poet, who appeared in hit BBC show Peaky ...
When I first heard Linton Kwesi Johnson’s words, they came flowing through a nearly blown-out sound system in a Los Angeles punk club in the early ’80s. I could barely hear him, but something about ...
Pioneering dub poet, storyteller and cultural activist Jean “Binta” Breeze, whose unflinchingly honest performance poetry touched many hearts, died at the University Hospital of the West Indies in ...
Benjamin Zephaniah, who has died of a brain tumour aged 65, was among Britain's most prominent poets. Referred to as the "people's laureate", he was once voted the country's third-favourite poet, ...
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