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Poets Attila
the Stockbroker, John Hegley and Benjamin Zephaniah
have donated some great free downloads to help promote
a new CD for Oxfam.
Thirty of the best known
poets writing in English gathered in Soho on June 18th
to record their work for Oxfam. Other contributors included
James Fenton, Blake Morrison and Ruth Fainlight with
young stars Jacob Poley and Dalgit Nagra.
Attila the Stockbroker is a sharp tongued, high energy, social surrealist rebel poet and songwriter. His themes are topical, his words hard-hitting, his politics unashamedly radical, but Attila will make you roar with laughter as well as seethe with anger...
John Hegley
worked as a bus conductor and social security clerk,
until he went to Bradford University, eking out his
grant by working as a nurse in a local mental hospital.
Benjamin Zephaniah’s
work has been called many things – including dub
poetry, performance poetry, pop poetry and rap poetry
– but he prefers the title ‘oral poet’
because, he says, ‘as I write my poetry, I can
hear the sound of it’. Zephaniah says his poetry
is ‘ strongly influenced by the music and poetry
of Jamaica’.
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