A funky chicken ate my corn But really I don't mind My funky friend eats my dinner Every time I dine

That funky chicken will stop at nothing! Enter the crazy world of rap poet Benjamin Zephaniah and move to the beat of his very own high-octane, performance-power poetry.

Rapping and happening, Benjamin luvs you!

“He’s a real messenger, unlike anyone in Britain in his stand against the mystification of culture. I defy anyone to listen to a performance of his poetry and not come away uplifted. Brecht would have loved him.” Poetry Review

“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.” Independent on Sunday

"Benjamin Zephaniah’s poems are short, funny and modern. This is poetry with attitude.” The Times

“Britain’s best known Rasta poet, famous for his hypnotic readings.” Mail on Sunday

“He brings Jamaican rhythms, the patois of the streets, the perception that… poetry can be powerful, provocative, street-wise… He takes poetry off the page and into urban mouths, turns verse into sassy, beat-filled performance.” The Scotsman

“Benjamin Zephaniah writes poems that tickle your imagination and make you think.” Meg@ (The Times)

“His wit is devastating and his well aimed shafts of satire rarely miss their mark.” Junior Bookshelf

“An irreverent, high-speed tour of anything from vegetables to the Queen, from sewage to the sun.” Independent on Sunday on Funky Chickens

“Wonderfully fresh and invigorating.” Junior Education on Funky Chickens

“Zephaniah, whose verses about poetry itself are among his most satisfying, offers young readers a glimpse of that secret world where ‘every pencil needs a hand/and every mind needs to expand’.” TES on Funky Chickens

“Funky Chickens and Talking Turkeys play with typeface and orthography, pulse with irreverent energy and joie-de-vivre.” The Scotsman