Be kind to your turkey this Christmas,” wrote Benjamin Zephaniah in a poem I know he’d be proud to learn made vegetarians out of hundreds of children across the UK. I say “wrote” but really, because ...
Poets read out 65 poems before attaching them to newly planted trees in honour of writer and poet Benjamin Zephaniah. The readings were held in Burbury Park in Birmingham on Saturday, following a ...
He was born Benjamin Springer in 1958 in the tough neighbourhood of Handsworth, Birmingham (where veteran roots reggae band Steel Pulse originated). He once described that area of the UK Midlands as ...