TED Radio Hour and Me

Posted on July 16, 2014 by Lemn Sissay

Within a few hours of stepping off the plane after 24 hours travelling from South Africa at The National Arts Festival. I’m sat in studio at the BBC in central London. I'm talking to Guy Raz Read more [...]

From Charleston to The Island of Nantucket.

Posted on September 28, 2013 by Lemn Sissay

The Homeland Security guard in Boston Airport says my name as I walk by “Lemn”. I look at him. “I am Ethiopian” he says. We smile. We shake hands. I love being known to my people*. The flight Read more [...]

September. A month lived backwards

Posted on September 27, 2013 by Lemn Sissay

The night before hosting the awards at Charleston, a Bloomsbury Home and Garden, two nights before Nantucket I read at The Irish Literature Festival (pic on right) in Bangor Northern Ireland by invite Read more [...]

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TED Radio Hour and Me

From Charleston to The Island of Nantucket.

September. A month lived backwards