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My Final Post on This Blog.
August 5th, 2022
This blog ran from August 2006 until August 2022. After 16 years it has come to a natural end. I write in a new place called Entoto Sunrise. My Chancellorship at the University of Manchester Read more [...]
A message to China. Thank you Xu Bing.
September 7th, 2021
This is Xu Bing from China. We have never met. What he has done with my poem takes it to the next level.
Xu was born in Chongqing, China, in 1955. He earned his B.A. degree from the Read more [...]
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 [...]