To Do Wid Me: Benjamin Zephaniah Filmed Live & Direct by Pamela Robertson-Pearce

Bloodaxe’s first full-length feature film released on DVD

To Do Wid Me is both a Selected Poems by Benjamin Zephaniah and a film portrait of Benjamin Zephaniah by Pamela Robertson-Pearce drawing on both live performances and informal interviews. The film shows him performing his poetry for different audiences and talking about his work, life, beliefs and much else. You see him live on stage at Ledbury Poetry Festival, Newcastle’s Live Theatre, Hexham’s Queen’s Hall and Brunel University, and engaging with school children at Keats House in London, where he was writer-in-residence.

The poems are drawn from his three Bloodaxe collections, City Psalms (1992), Propa Propaganda (1996) and Too Black, Too Strong (2001), as well as from his earlier collection The Dread Affair (1985).

The book supplements the film and includes the texts of all the poems and songs from the film and videos. As well as the main film, the DVD also has a bonus feature: music videos made by Zephaniah with the Beta Brothers.

The DVD is PAL format compatible with DVD players in most countries apart from Canada, Japan, Mexico, Philippines, Taiwan and the United States but playable on laptops produced for those countries.