Benjamin Zephaniah
Writer, dub poet and musician
Collected poems include Pen Rhythm and Too Black, Too Strong; children’s books include We Are Britain.
Dis poetry is like a riddim dat drops
De tongue fires a riddim dat shoots like shots
From ‘Dis Poetry’ in City Psalms (Newcastle: Bloodaxe, 1992)
Dis sweet one music we make
Is for all of us who work dis land
And cannot be contained by bricks and mortar
From ‘Carnival Days’ in Too Black, Too Strong (Newcastle: Bloodaxe, 2001)