Benjamin Zephaniah was a trailblazer. He broke every glass ceiling going | Lemn Sissay
His dub poetry had a rhythm that attached you to its words. He was a rebel, a guiding light, and my hero Benjamin Zephaniah was a brilliant poet and an incredible human being. He had dyslexia but he ended up on the national curriculum. He grew up in Birmingham and left school at 14 and got into trouble. Before he came to London he used to sleep with a gun under his pillow but he never wanted to be part of that world.…
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