Benjamin Zephaniah

Christina Patterson: Interview with Benjaman Zephaniah: 'I'm just a normal bloke who writes poems' 06/19/2009

Novelist, playwright, poet, actor, and outspoken activist Benjamin Zephaniah was born on April 15, 1958, and spent his early life growing up in both Jamaica and Birmingham, England. Though he had been writing poems his entire life, he was also dyslexic, and he quit his formal schooling as a young teenager. In 1979 Zephaniah moved to London and released his first book of poetry, -Pen Rhythm, the ...more