Peaky Blinders star Benjamin Zephaniah dies at 65 - eight weeks after tumour diagnosis irishmirror.ie - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from irishmirror.ie Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
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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Benjamin Zephaniah, a poet and writer who appeared in the Netflix series 'Peaky Blinders,' has died. He was 65. His 'Peaky Blinders' family paid tribute on Thursday.
Zephaniah, who performed at the Hong Kong Literary Festival in 2011, was known for fighting racism and social injustice. He died after being diagnosed with a brain tumour, his family said on Thursday.