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

The display includes 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.

A blue plaque for Benjamin Zephaniah on display.

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'.

A black typewriter.