Refugee Boy, the second novel he said he’d never write, is a book aimed at children as well as adults— closely based on a boy Zephaniah came to know in Newham. The boy’s father deserted him in a hotel in Reading to save him the trauma of returning to civil war in Ethiopia, and...
(2007), all from Bloomsbury;The Bloomsbury Book of Love Poems(1999);Schools Out: Poems Not for School(1997) andThe Little Book of Vegan Poems(2001) from AK Press; andWe Are Britain(Frances Lincoln, 2003). He published his autobiography,The Life and Rhymes and Benjamin Zephaniah, with ...
Credo: Benjamin Zephaniah ; the Poet and Author Has Written a New Book for Children, and Is Curating a Photographic Exhibition 来自 questia.com 喜欢 0 阅读量: 1 收藏 报错 分享 全部来源 求助全文 questia.com 相似文献‘The new Europeans’: the image of the African refugee in European ...
his first children’s book was published in 1994.Talking Turkeyspropelled Zephaniah to greater mainstream success and had to be reprinted 6 weeks after release in order to keep up with the demand. The Independent on Sunday described ...
Performance, Politics, and Poetry for Children: Interviews with Michael Rosen and Benjamin Zephaniah In these two separate interviews, poets and performers Michael Rosen and Benjamin Zephaniah consider their craft and influences. Both poets have made significant contributions to British children's poetry....
来自Benjamin Zephaniah《Naked (Explicit)》,专辑简介:by Marisa BrownBenjamin Zephaniah is better known in the English-speaking world for his books of poetry and children's fiction, but his latest musical release, Naked, should help in bringing his
We Sang Across the Sea: The Empire Windrush and Me(2022), a biography ofMona Baptistewritten by Zephaniah and illustrated byOnyinye Iwu. [edit] Children's books We are Britain(2002),Frances Lincoln Publishers Primary Rhyming Dictionary(2004), Chambers Harrap ...
Over the years, Zephaniah wrote several more books of poems, including Propa Propaganda, Too Black, Too Strong and Talking Turkeys. He also published novels like Face and Refugee Boy and children's books like When I Grow Up. In addition to being a writer, Zephaniah—who had more...
Zephaniah identifies with the children he has worked with, “who are shooting each other and stabbing each other or just not paying attention to life”, noting that many lacked education and role models. “Fortunately, I didn’t end up killing anybody or anything like that, but I know what...
This encouraged him to write short poems and to recite them, but this time with no musical accompaniment. Zephaniah's first collection of poems (Pen Rhythm) appeared in 1980, and in the following years he carved a remarkable reputation on the local poetry scene as a performer of hard-...