# Benjamin Zephaniah — To Michael Menson

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Podcast: [Poetry Unbound](https://stenobird.com/podcast/poetry-unbound-104007)
Published: 2025-02-17T07:00:00+00:00
Episode link: https://onbeing.org/programs/benjamin-zephaniah-to-michael-menson
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## Resource

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.

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