The moment Lemn Sissay enters a room, audiences can tell he is there to perform. He is open and smiling, cracking so many jokes between his poems and memoir readings that the event feels almost like ...
The Brown Daily Herald: Author, poet Lemn Sissay talks poetry, forgiveness, family at readings
The Arts Desk: Lemn Sissay, Brighton Festival review - a mesmerising sermon of performance poetry
Lemn Sissay, Brighton Festival review - a mesmerising sermon of performance poetry
Lemn Sissay OBE says he was proud to be asked to write a special poem for Manchester City celebrating Black History Month. The award-winning and internationally acclaimed poet grew up in children’s ...
Lemn Sissay’s work has appeared on TV, in books and on the pavements and buildings of Manchester. He has travelled all over the world to read his poetry and has toured virtually every city in the UK.
Oxford Mail: Poet Lemn Sissay talks abandonment, childhood, remembrance at Woodstock Literary Festival
READING his own specially commissioned poem to a crowd of 20,000 people at The Somme Centenary was an occasion Lemn Sissay will never forget, perhaps the defining moment of his career. “That stands ...
BBC: Hardy's Well fire: Pub featuring Lemn Sissay poem on wall demolished
Poet Lemn Sissay said he was "quite sad" a pub where his poem has featured on the wall for more than 30 years has been demolished after a fire. A blaze damaged the derelict Hardy's Well in Rusholme, ...
Performance poet Lemn Sissay has said he wants his new piece to mark Black History Month for Manchester City to be a work that "everybody loves". Named The Stadium Speaks, it features in a short film ...