Episode

Benjamin Zephaniah — To Michael Menson

Podcast: Poetry Unbound
Published: Feb 17, 2025
Duration seconds: 772
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Summary

Benjamin Zephaniah’s urgent, imperative “To Michael Menson” was written when he was a poet in residence at a human rights barrister in England. His poem resonates with his repeated calls for justice for a murdered Black musician — not a justice that is gullible, impotent, or hopeless but one that is clear-eyed, collaborative, and mighty.