![]() ![]() “It really inspired me to keep doing what I was doing,” he claimed. ![]() Keep doing what you do.” Unveiling an English Heritage Blue plaque at 42 Oakley Street, London, in 2019, Zephaniah said the letter was one of the main reasons he felt encouraged to pursue “dub poetry”, the style for which he is now most famous. What do you think of my poems?” Incredibly, he received a hand-written reply, all the way from Jamaica, where the musician told him, “Young man, Britain needs you. ![]() Nobody’s really listening to me in England. When he was a schoolboy, one of Britain's most prolific contemporary writers, Benjamin Zephaniah, wrote a letter to Marley along the lines of, “I’m a poet from Birmingham. ![]()
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