In no particular order here are some people across the world whom I would like to
say Merry Christmas to and wish a happy new year: The Journalist, Omar Kaisy and Aida Kaisy, Kari greaves and
Graham Parry, neighbours James and Gillian and Arlow and Eli,, Jude Kelly Michael Bird Caroline Bird, Mamta Sagar, Joanne Prince and Andy King. To Dave Haslam
and Catherine and children Riley and Jack; to Nkechi Abili,
Chachu, Simon Hattenstone and all
the tribe, Mark Atwood, Katy Atwood and Jo Nightingale Atwood and all the
children. Sonita Alleyne, gary Younge and family, David
Akinsanya, Kwasi Asante, Helen Taylor and Phil Taylor and the Cambridge family; Merry Christmas and an happy new year to you
all.
Duwayne Brooks, Maura Dooley, David Hunter and children, Diane
Roberts and her children, Shae and Jacob,
Gwyneth Davies, Whitney McVeigh and children Marley and Leo. Jamie
Byng and Elizabeth Byng and newborn Nathaniel, Dana Bryant in New York and Parvinder Sohal in
Accrington, to Adele Jones in Manchester
and Rob Jones in London. To Liz
Sharpley, Kate McGrath, Nod Knowles,
Lisa Dwan, Sally Gross and her
flock, to Chris Waterman and Daniel
Hahn, Rizwan Ahmed, Nikki Parrott and
John McGrath and Shobna Gulati and her dear son; To Rohan Heath and his loving
and lovely family and Magesh Padiachee, merry Christmas and an happy new year to you
all.
To my mother Yemarshet Sissay and on my mothers side, my sister xxxxxxx and neice xxxx, my brother Mehatem Ashenafi and his wife and child Nayenne and sister Tsahaiwork Ashenafi. On my fathers side my brother Abiyu Stefanos, Mimi Stefanos and Stefanos Stefanos. My aunts and uncles Daniel Stefanos, Samson Stefanos Belay Stefanos, Benyam Stefanos, Alemash
Stefanos, Asgadet Stefanos and all their
wives or husbands and children; Merry Christmas and an happy new year to you
all.
In literature I would
like to say Merry Christmas to all at English PEN, all at the Poetry Society, all at Apples and Snakes, all at The Arvon Foundation, all at The
Booktrust, The literature team at British
Council, at The Southbank Centre, Vicky
Long, Jane Beese, Mary King, Lucy
Macnab, Lorna Rose Simpson, Debs Butler, Roger Malbert, Marcus Marshall,
Gillian Moore, Sarah Hynds, Becky Shaw,
Domino Pateman, Eva Martinez, Nicky
Molloy: a Merry Christmas and an happy new year to you
all
To all at Canongate Books, to Francis Bickmore, ofcourse to jamie also
to Paul Beazley and Ruth at 57 productions ; to Ruth Young; To Mike and Warren of Variety Lives and Gill
Lloyd and Chief and all at Artsadmin. I would like to wish Merry Christmas to Deborah May of DVD Dance; to Gary
Crosby OBE and all his family and Peter
Edwards; to all at The Letterbox Club,
to Hal Wake at The Vancouver readers and Writers Festival; To all the Artists in residence at Southbank
Centre including Gauri Tripathi, Simon Armitage, Tim and Anna Ricardo of Creative Connections, The Cape Farewell Team, Shlomo, and New Deal Of The Mind. Merry
Christmas to Fiona Sampson at Poetry Review and to Maria Kempinska, Merry Christmas and an Happy New Year to you all.
It's a list. There are no links Just a whole list of good people.