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Ben Okri

Ben Okri is a poet and novelist. His latest collection of poems is “A Fire in My Head” (Head of Zeus).

From the NS archive: Labelled

15 March 1985: To be a writer and to be black in Britain is to be in a corner.

By Ben Okri

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From “The Unknown Hour”

A new poem by Ben Okri, on Brexit and our times.

By Ben Okri

Ben Okri: Brexit is Iago’s paradise

Politicians have become Iago figures, using passion and rhetoric to drown out the Othellos. Justice and civil rights are being rubbed…

By Ben Okri

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