Activity one: According to my mood
Poetic license and Zephaniah’s use of language

Activity two: White comedy
Defamiliarisation and the theme of discrimination

Activity three: Talking turkeys!!
Humour, parody and personification

Activity four: A bomb pusher writes
Satire in Zephaniah’s struggle for life and peace

Activity five: Man to man
The use of irony

Activity six: She’s crying for many
Dramatic features of poetry and the plight of battered women

Refugee boy
The British Council in Hungary has produced teaching materials on Benjamin Zephaniah’s Refugee Boy, which are available online.