Sonny Green knows what people assume when they see a white working-class lad in an England shirt. His poem What England Means to Me is his answer.
Poet, grime artist and Britain’s Got Talent finalist Sonny talks to Josh Connolly about the England flag, finding pride in multicultural Britain and in a hometown everyone else writes off, addiction recovery, and what getting sober did to his accent.
He opens up about growing up on a council estate in Southend-on-Sea, the youth clubs and community that shaped him, and why trying to sound posh would have watered down everything he does.
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