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    ‘Like a letter from the Queen’: Poet remembers childhood letter from Zephaniah

    by Hannah Cottrell Dec 08, 2023 2 minutes

    A writer and performer who received a letter from Professor Benjamin Zephaniah when she was 11 years old has spoken of the impact it had as she pursued her career.

    Jess Green, an award-winning performance poet and script writer for TV and theatre, wrote to Zephaniah in 2000 to tell

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