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Wicked World!

  • Imprint: Puffin

  • ISBN: 9780141306834

  • Length: 96  Pages

  • Dimensions: 198mm x 6mm x 129mm

  • Weight: 84g

  • RRP: £6.99

Wicked World!

Welcome to the wild and wicked words of Benjamin Zephaniah. You'll find loads of cool people who make up our world in this rapping, happening hip-hop collection. From the South Pole to Mongolia and the Himalayas, this is a real world tour of poems about people and places, cultures and nationalities across our planet.

Includes poems about Inuits, Celts, the history of Britain, Maories, the Dalai Lama, the North and South Poles, and much more - a rhyming round-the-world trip.

Poems that bounce up from the page and demand to be read, rapped, sung and hip-hopped aloud - Independent on Sunday

  • Imprint: Puffin

  • ISBN: 9780141306834

  • Length: 96  Pages

  • Dimensions: 198mm x 6mm x 129mm

  • Weight: 84g

  • RRP: £6.99

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  • Poems that bounce up from the page and demand to be read, rapped, sung and hip-hopped aloud

    Independent on Sunday

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About the Author

Benjamin Zephaniah

Benjamin Zephaniah was born in Birmingham and moved to London when he was 22. He has written acclaimed poetry collections for adults and for children. He has his own band and has made rap and dub ranting art forms by combining poetry with music. He spends much time visiting schools, youth clubs and prisons. Benjamin Zephaniah made headline news when he was short-listed for the Chair of Poetry at Oxford University. He lives in London.

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