Talking Turkeys by Benjamin Zephaniah
Christmas is not a happy time for turkeys, as the British Jamaican Benjamin Zephaniah - one of our finest dub poets and children's authors - demonstrates here with remarkable wit and aplomb. This poem, as well as the book of the same name, achieved enormous success after being published in 1994. Zephaniah was a local legend at the age of 15, noted for his stirring, socially conscious poetry, and was born in the Birmingham district of Handsworth, which he dubbed "the Jamaican capital of Europe". This is an excellent example of Zephaniah taking on a serious problem and introducing it to young people in a way that is both amusing and fun.
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