Benjamin Zephaniah: trailblazing writer who 'took poetry everywhere'

Benjamin Zephaniah, who has died of a brain tumour aged 65, was among Britain's most prominent poets. Referred to as the "people's laureate", he was once voted the country's third-favourite poet, after T.S. Eliot and John Donne. His dub poetry, sometimes performed to a reggae backbeat, could be…

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