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Benjamin Zephaniah, poet, 1958-2023 – obituary Unsurprisingly, in later life the Birmingham-born writer said he felt a close affinity with cultures which prized spoken verse. Zephaniah was a self-declared “naughty boy”, who found fame in the 1980s as a dub poet while meshing Jamaican patois with reggae rhyme. Dubbed Britain’s “people’s laureate”, he was awarded … Read more