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Too Black, Too Strong is Benjamin Zephaniah's first new book of poems for five years. It addresses the struggles of black Britain more forcefuly than all his previous books.
Too Black, Too Strong includes poems written while working with Michael Mansfield QC and other Tooks barristers on the Stephen Lawrence case and...
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"They put a leather belt around her
13 feet of tape and bound her
Handcuffs to secure her
And only God knows what else,
She's illegal, so deport her
Said the Empire that brought her
She died,
Nobody killed her
And she never killed herself....
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Born in Birmingham in 1958, Zephaniah grew up in Jamaica and in Handsworth, where he was sent to an approved school for uncontrollable, rebellious and 'a born failure', ending up in jail for burglary. After prison, he turned from crime to music and poetry: 'I started writing poetry because I didn't like poetry.'...
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All types of love - from the pangs of unrequited love to a big warm hug from your mum - are celebrated in this unique selection of poems chosen by Benjamin Zephaniah. So go on, dip into these pages and immerse yourself.
Published by Bloomsbury
Cover design by Christopher Corr...
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A celebration of the City of Liverpool.
Published by AK Press....
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Audio CD & cassette
This release represents the broadest & deepest sampling of Benjamin's spoken-works to date - including such contemporary classics as Money Rant, Me Green Poem & Us An Dem - yet with a strong emphasis on the new - with poems from the most recent books, poems heard only on radio & poems committed to the...
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Benjamin talks about how life in prison helped change his future as a poet.
Article in Raw Edge Magazine - Issue 5 - Autumn/Winter 1997
I understand that you spent some of your childhood in Jamaica. How old were you when you went back?
There was never a particular time when I went back and stayed there, I was always to-ing and...
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