By the end of the week poems were falling through the ceiling sliding betwixt the wooden beams. On one day it snowed and covered our world in sheets of white paper as if early drafts had been torn up thrown into the clouds where they crystallized and returned in sheets. There were poems everywhere, of astonishing quality.   more »

On Thursday morning on Euston Road in central London I was walking a few feet behind a blind man. He was swinging his white cane as if it were a lead on an hyperactive terrier. It was distressing to see. Ahead the tree embedded in the pavement slanted backwards towards us as if pushed by a hurricane.   more »

“I never trust a man who claims to be honest. You didn’t but convinced none the less that poets deal in universal truth. So why say in ten words what you can say in just two? Thank you. “   more »

The car hums like a quieter version of the plane. “Saw the spring lambs today” she says” as we sweep down into Belfast, into the mouth of Belfast lock.   more »

“The doorman gave a wise guy snigger “hey man there was a police bust last night. Prostitute robbed a john in the hotel.” I wanted to tell him I was a resident but he already knew that. " see that black man over there" I looked "drug dealer" he said if I needed anything."   more »

See short Film "A spring Bee B at the Southbank Centre?" See video here.   more »

See What If film here. Shown on Channel Four TV, as part of their Darwin Originals series in early 2009 and part of The Royal Academy GSK Contemporary Earth Exhibition December 2009 and January 2010. Broadcast as a project between Southbank Centre and Artsadmin. Vocals and Writing by Lemn Sissay, Piano Peter Edwards and Double Bass Gary Crosby. See film here.   more »

See BBC short film called THOUGHT FOR THE DAY here. Shot in 2003 BBC TV   more »

By Friday a pile of letters from all quarters, from Judges and politicians, arrive upon my desk in congratulations for the gong. I’m so proud. But the lion sleeps. An interest in my biography arrives from a major publisher, another. I need a literary agent - someone who can deal with books and publisher enquiries and commissions. Help.   more »

I must warn you that this excerpt is quite graphic. I read it tonight on stage at Hackney Empire at the behest of theatre director Felix Cross and would like to share it with you - here it is.   more »