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Independent Bookshop Week 19th to 26th June.
June 20th, 2021
We enter bookshops to broaden our minds. May they flourish and may we. I was fourteen in 1981 when I opened the door of Lamp Bookshop in Leigh. All that was left of its previous incarnation, as a corner-shop Read more [...]
A Blog of Thanks.
June 12th, 2021
Thank you to Meseret Fikru for being a friend and to Marcos, my God Son. Thank you to my God Mother Ethiopia Alfred Thank you to Dave Haslam for being my friend. Thank you to lebo Mashille for being Read more [...]
Post Pandemic Parlez, Awards and Maps
May 24th, 2021
Dear Lemn as it's the week after of your birthday. This post is to your future self to show what you were doing at the time.
For your birthday present you have been asking people to tell you something Read more [...]
Eighteen Hours of Tell Me Something.
May 8th, 2021
Hello. It’s Eighteen hours since I announced my new site with the following message: "I invite you to contribute to my new project “tell me something about family” via a specially created website. Read more [...]
Happy Days. First UK City to Launch Multi Arts Festival since Lockdown.
March 30th, 2021
https://youtu.be/_U2x1gyHiQ4
Brighton Festival Launches 2021 Programme with the Theme ‘Care’
• First UK city to launch a multi-arts festival since lockdown
• Guest director Lemn Sissay’s Read more [...]
The distribution of light.
March 21st, 2021
Good morning good afternoon or good evening wherever you are. Today is World Poetry Day. The sun is rising in London. The days are warmer and longer. In light of the general trend of feeling Read more [...]
If you don’t know about this “once in a generation opportunity” you should!
January 25th, 2021
I wanted much more from the launch of "independent review for children's social care' in England. The dispatch has been duly noted by interested parties such as the multi million pound business The Read more [...]
Gratitude with Attitude
January 6th, 2021
I’ve shredded and shed-ed. I’ve bagged and boxed. I’ve folded, I’ve filed, and I have filled recycle bags with malignant gangs of documents which have followed me, grunting their disdain, in Read more [...]
64 Million Artists and A Record of Records.
January 4th, 2021
Happy New Year. It has been a strange one but I hope this cheers you up a bit. January can be the best month of the year because The January Challenge lifts the spirit!
We have curated a creative Read more [...]
More Christmas Dinners for care leavers than EVER before!! And other news!
December 21st, 2020
This year of all years I expected The Christmas Dinners for Care Leavers, which I set up in 2013, would be cancelled. There was no way steering groups would meet through winter, week in week out, Read more [...]