Manchester Evening News photo on Christmas Day at The Manchester Christmas Dinner
Eight hundred and thirty eight people raised thirty thousand pounds in fifty days for The Christmas Dinners. Read more [...]
10 days in a beautiful world
I have been in Changsha the capital of Hunan Province - population 65,000,000 - for ten days residing in The Fen Ling Hotel at the foot of The Yuelu Read more [...]
Ethiopian Airlines Takes off for the first time in its seventy year history from Manchester Airport on Tuesday Morning. I will be on the Dreamliner.
My father was a pilot for Ethiopian Airlines Read more [...]
Sarah Lancashire as Miriam Grayson in TV drama series Kiri written by jack Thorne. Her Dog represented her own needs.
Shouldn't our government and the well being of society Read more [...]
Darren Henley, CEO of Arts Council England, speaking at the first conferencein the UK on Care and the arts imdustry at Derby Theatre in November 2018.
In the UK there is an unprecedented Read more [...]
Here are a selection of recordings from TV radio and online which string together my singular internal journey in lieu of family.
I have used publicity on my artistic endeavours to direct attention Read more [...]
The award winning arts centre Storyhouse is the canvas for my morning tweets. They are tatooed onto the skin of the building. "Lemn Sissay, artist in residence for this Read more [...]
Family is a set of disputed memories between one group of people over a lifetime: In lieu I blog.
The great thing about festvals is meeting poets. This is from The Poetry Marathon. Read more [...]
At 10pm on November 28th my television documentary "Superkids: Beaking Away From Care" will be broadcast on Channel Four Television. I hope you get chance to see it. I am more proud of this documentary Read more [...]
It is National Care Leavers Week. I’ve said before that Harry Potter was a foster child. His status (as fostered child) has spread like wildfire since then. He’s one of us. Read more [...]