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TS Eliot Prize winner Jason Allen-Paisant: 'My Jamaican grandmother would sing me Rule, Britannia'

After winning the richest award in British poetry on Monday – the £25,000 TS Eliot Prize – Jason Allen-Paisant couldn’t sleep for excitement, and found himself pacing the dark, freezing London streets, in “a confused vortex of emotions”. ....

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Benjamin Zephaniah made performance poetry mainstream – and was an eccentric joy to meet

Benjamin Zephaniah – who has died today, after a short illness – did more to change the face of British poetry than any writer of the past 50 years. When he started out in the late 1970s, the man on the street had never heard of “performance poetry”. Today, stars in the spoken word scene he helped to build can attract crowds of thousands – and that’s largely down to him. ....

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