„Wielkie nagrody i pieniądze zabijają czarną poezję…”
Źródło: Bought and sold, cyt. za: Sophie Meyer, Benjamin Zephaniah, w: 501 wielkich pisarzy pod red. Juliana Patricka, wyd. MWK, Warszawa 2009, ISBN 9788361095333, s. 625.
Benjamin Obadiah Iqbal Zephaniah, urodzony 15 kwietnia 1958 w Birmingham, Handsworth, Anglia. Poeta, pisarz, muzyk, działacz społeczny. Jest weganinem.
Obecnie należy do najbardziej znanych poetów brytyjskich. Zadebiutował w roku 1980, po przystąpieniu do religii rastafariańskiej. W roku 2003 nie przyjął królewskiego Orderu Imperium nadanego mu przez królową Elżbietę II, przyznanego mu za osiągnięcia w dziedzinie literatury.
„Wielkie nagrody i pieniądze zabijają czarną poezję…”
Źródło: Bought and sold, cyt. za: Sophie Meyer, Benjamin Zephaniah, w: 501 wielkich pisarzy pod red. Juliana Patricka, wyd. MWK, Warszawa 2009, ISBN 9788361095333, s. 625.
"Interview: Benjamin Zephaniah" by John Hind, TheGuardian.com (18 July 2010) https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2010/jul/18/benjamin-zephaniah-life-on-a-plate.
"Zephaniah Speaks: Poetic Thoughts", interview with Arkangel Magazine (2002) reported in BenjaminZephaniah.com https://benjaminzephaniah.com/poetic-thoughts/?doing_wp_cron=1519050664.5827260017395019531250.
On the appeal of his writings in “Interview | Benjamin Zephaniah” https://www.thelondonmagazine.org/interview-benjamin-zephaniah/ in the London Magazine (2018 Mar 5)
On his writing process in “Interview with Benjamin Zephaniah” https://www.writersandartists.co.uk/writers/advice/37/a-writers-toolkit/interviews-with-authors/interview-with-benjamin-zephaniah in Writers & Artists
On the realization that he was a poet in “Interview with Benjamin Zephaniah” https://www.writersandartists.co.uk/writers/advice/37/a-writers-toolkit/interviews-with-authors/interview-with-benjamin-zephaniah in Writers & Artists
… I can honestly say I've not been tempted to give up veganism in 27 years. I sometimes smell a chip shop and like the smell but then feel guilty because fish might be part of it. But I'll go home and make vegan chips. After all these years, my favourite food is my mother's butter bean stew with whole potatoes, yam and dasheen. I don't think I've ever made a meal for her, to be honest. I think she would consider it a failing of her motherhood and say "Boy, get out the kitchen."
"Interview: Benjamin Zephaniah" by John Hind, TheGuardian.com (18 July 2010) https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2010/jul/18/benjamin-zephaniah-life-on-a-plate