A small display celebrating the life and work of Birmingham-born poet, actor and activist, Benjamin Zephaniah, who died in 2023.

The display includes a photo of the poet taken by renowned Birmingham-based photographer Pogus Caesar, an extract from one of Zephaniah’s poems about the city, ‘The Big Bang’, and a new Blue Plaque commissioned by the Nubian Jak Community Trust, an organisation highlighting the work of Black and minority ethnic people in the UK.

Benjamin Zephaniah’s typewriter is also on display in the Made in Birmingham exhibit in the Industrial Gallery — he used this typewriter to write his first two books, 'Pen Rhythm' and 'Dead Affair'.