Dread Poets Society

Benjamin Zephaniah renowned Rastafarian poetrapper is traveling by train from Birmingham to Cambridge to receive his Creative Arts Fellowship sharing a carriage with a racist and philistine car spares salesman played by Timothy Spall by chance the poets Keats Byron Shelley and writer Mary Shelley are transported from a séance they are conducting in The Villa Como by a freak electrical storm A battle of wits drug taking and poetry performance ensues