Benjamin Zephaniah
A high-profile international author with an enormous breadth of appeal, Benjamin Zephaniah was perhaps best known for his performance poetry with a political edge for adults and ground-breaking performance poetry for children. Alongside his poetry he created novels and plays, wrote and performed music and had a recurring role as preacher Jeremiah Jesus in the BBC series Peaky Blinders . In his novels for young people, which include Face , Refugee Boy , Gangsta Rap and Teacher's Dead , Zephaniah...See more
A high-profile international author with an enormous breadth of appeal, Benjamin Zephaniah was perhaps best known for his performance poetry with a political edge for adults and ground-breaking performance poetry for children. Alongside his poetry he created novels and plays, wrote and performed music and had a recurring role as preacher Jeremiah Jesus in the BBC series Peaky Blinders . In his novels for young people, which include Face , Refugee Boy , Gangsta Rap and Teacher's Dead , Zephaniah tackled vital themes that resonate as much today as they did upon their first publication. See less