Zephaniah is the reigning king of children's poetry... He has an unselfconscious relish for language and word-play that never strays into the patronising dee-dum-dee-dum-dee-dum territory of so much of children's poetry: his are poems that bounce up from the page and demand to be read, rapped, sung and hip-hopped aloud.

Benjamin Zephaniah's poems are short, funny and modern. This is poetry with attitude

[B]rilliantly weaves themes of emancipation, class, love, propaganda and the machinations of war