Benjamin Zephaniah sits in the beautiful Pillar Room of Cheltenham Town Hall, addressing an audience of tweedy, middle-aged locals, alongside that most motherly of controversialists, Yasmin Alibhai Brown. Later, he will present one of the literature festival’s “family events”, where an even mo...
It's an impressive, striking, vaguely menacing entrance - an effect that's utterly ruined the moment he takes off his glasses and cracks a big, gap-toothed smile.Poet, novelist, revolutionary, Zephaniah has been the "acceptable" face and voice of radical black politics for more than 20 ...