The Poetry of Benjamin Zephaniah Benjamin Zephaniah

Poetry

• Pen Rhythm (1980), Page One, ISBN 978-0907373001
• The Dread Affair: Collected Poems (1985), Arena, ISBN 978-0099392507
• City Psalms (1992), Bloodaxe Books, ISBN 978-1852242305
• Inna Liverpool (1992), AK Press, ISBN 978-1873176757
• Talking Turkeys (1994), Puffin Books, ISBN 978-0140363302
• Propa Propaganda (1996), Bloodaxe Books, ISBN 978-1852243722
• Funky Chickens (1997), Puffin, ISBN 978-0140379457
• School's Out: Poems Not for School (1997), AK Press, ISBN 978-1873176498
• Funky Turkeys (audiobook) (1999), Puffin, ASIN B07VJJ8WCX[137]
• Wicked World! (2000), Puffin Random House, ISBN 978-0141306834
• Too Black, Too Strong (2001), Bloodaxe Books, ISBN 978-1852245542
• The Little Book of Vegan Poems (2001), AK Press, ISBN 978-1902593333
• Reggae Head (audiobook), 57 Productions, ISBN 978-1899021055

Novels

• Face (1999), Bloomsbury (published in children's and adult editions)
• Refugee Boy (2001), Bloomsbury
• Gangsta Rap (2004), Bloomsbury
• Teacher's Dead (2007), Bloomsbury
• Terror Kid (2014), Bloomsbury[138]
• Windrush Child (2020), Scholastic, ISBN 978-0702302725

Biographies

• We Sang Across the Sea: The Empire Windrush and Me (2022), Scholastic. ISBN 978-0702311161 – a biography of Mona Baptiste written by Zephaniah and illustrated by Onyinye Iwu.[139]

Children's books

• We Are Britain (2002), Frances Lincoln Publishers
• Primary Rhyming Dictionary (2004), Chambers Harrap
• J Is for Jamaica (2006), Frances Lincoln
• My Story (2011), Collins
• When I Grow Up (2011), Frances Lincoln

Other

• Kung Fu Trip (2011), Bloomsbury
• The Life And Rhymes of Benjamin Zephaniah (2018), Simon & Schuster[42]

Plays

• Playing the Right Tune (1985)
• Job Rocking (1987). Published in Black Plays: 2, ed. Yvonne Brewster, Methuen Drama, 1989.
• Delirium (1987)
• Streetwise (1990)
• Mickey Tekka (1991)
• Listen to Your Parents (included in Theatre Centre: Plays for Young People – Celebrating 50 Years of Theatre Centre, 2003, Aurora Metro; also published by Longman, 2007)
• Face: The Play (with Richard Conlon)