School's Out

by Benjamin Zephaniah

A collection of poetry from the internationally acclaimed Rasta poet. Thirty-four "children's" poems that parents will appreciate too. Includes "Peace Increase," "De Rich Getting Rich," "Recession," "It's Work," "Revolutions" and "A Marriage Of Minds" amongst others.
"Poems in School's Out should be fun
Saying something, but fun,
There are too many brainboxes
Taking the fun out of poetry,
Too many do gooders telling you what's good.
By now you should overstand I,
Here are poems dat are bad for you
The rejects
My favourites."—from the introduction Benjamin Zephaniah is one of the best known-contemporary poets in Britain today.

Genres: Poetry

64 pages, Paperback

First published March 29, 1997

About the author

A British-Jamaican writer, dub poet and Rastafari. He was included in The Times list of Britain's top 50 post-war writers in 2008.

Reviews

[Charlotte · Rating 5 out of 5]

This is such a nice book with 34 perfect "children's" poems, which I am sure that parents will also appreciate them. I especially love this quote from the poem "Lesson Number Wan" - "When ordered to sing I rap. When ordered to speak I chat. When ordered to die I lived."