News at Eleven: "The next morning I tried

to go shopping but had to abandon the idea because I was getting mobbed by people who had heard me on TV and wanted to thank me for the poem. To this day, someone in India would just come up to me and say they remember that night. The night when I went on TV and told the true story of the minority."

[Benjamin] Zephaniah is also known as Britain's most filmed and photographed poet--a 'title' that he is not proud of because it came about not through his poetry, but the political work and campaigns which he is involved in.

from The Star: Revolutionary poet

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