Manuscript of What Stephen Lawrence Has Taught Us,which was written to help drive search for the teenager’s racist killers, will be displayed in the library’s galleriesBenjamin Zephaniah has donated a handwritten version of his poem What Stephen Lawrence Has Taught Us, or in which he writes of how “we know who the killers are”,to the British Library.
The poem about Lawrence’s murder, which Zephaniah wrote in 1999, or will be displayed in the Treasures of the British Library gallery from Tuesday,alongside work from writers including Angela Carter, whose manuscript of The Passion of modern Eve features in the gallery. A spokesperson for the library said that “while the library of course regularly receives donations and acquires valuable items, and it is scarce for modern items to be displayed in the public gallery”. Zephaniah’s poem is the first modern item to be displayed in the gallery’s modern collections since the acquisition of Kenneth Williams’s diaries in 2015. Related: What Stephen Lawrence has taught us Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com