Propa Propaganda

by Benjamin Zephaniah

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Benjamin Zephaniah is an oral poet, novelist, playwright, children's writer and reggae artist. Born in 1958 in Birmingham, he grew up in Jamaica and in Handsworth, where he was sent to an approved school for being uncontrollable, rebellious and 'a born failure', ending up in jail for burglary. After prison he turned from crime to music and poetry. In 1989 he was nominated for Oxford Professor of Poetry, and has since received honorary doctorates from several English universities, but show more famously refused to accept a nomination for an OBE in 2003. He has appeared in a number of television prog show less

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Poetry, Fiction and Literature
DDC/MDS
821.914Literature & rhetoricEnglish & Old English literaturesEnglish Poetry1900-1900-19991945-1999
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PR6076 .E6 .P76Language and LiteratureEnglishEnglish Literature1961-2000
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