Professor Benjamin Zephaniah
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Official account of Benjamin Zephaniah. Poet, writer, musician & trouble maker. He doesn't reply to enquires or requests here. Dude, he's not even into twitter.
Joined August 2012
Recorded somewhere in the 90s, this recording just sat on the shelf doing nothing. But when considering the state of our nations, & how states strive to control people & abuse power, it is still relevant, probably more relevant, now. See whole video here.
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Benjamin Zephaniah is awarded an Honorary Doctorate of Literature in recognition of contributior to Contemporary English Literature at the University of Glamorgan.
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“Did performing on the sound systems help or inform your poetry?”
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RT @AskProfGusJohn: #AskProfGusJohn solidarity with .#JanetAlder #Campaigning #fight #Defiance #policebrutality #RacialInjustice . Suppo….
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This is Benjamin’s final interview. In the last stage of his life, he chose to speak and be heard. Though he may not look as he once did, this captures his truth, strength, and spirit. I am simply sharing his voice, as he wished.
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When you were a young boy you created poems in your head, which you shared with your mother. What was it about poetry that you loved?
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RT @BloodaxeBooks: Great to see that the late Benjamin Zephaniah's Dis Poetry: Selected Poems & Lyrics was included in Christopher Spaide's….
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Similes: there’s nothing like them. Called “quite likely the oldest readily identifiable poetic artifice in European literature” by the classicist James P. Holoka, the simile—an explicit comparison…
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RT @BloodaxeBooks: 'Put together within the covers of a single book, Zephaniah’s work adds up to something really extraordinary.’ – Andy Cr….
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Effective oppositional spaces are rapidly disappearing. Democratic process is blocked by inequality, authoritarianism, deceit and a narrow ideological consensus. Constitutional and legal constraint…
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