Addis Ababa. Day 2. Saturday. My cold disappears partly due to a weird and delicious hot peanut milk remedy which a waitress insists I drink at breakfast. I run 4k at the gym. Wuleta and Salome roll Read more [...]
I arrive in darkness and awake in the near darkness which crowds on the edge of dawn. It’s 5am and the Muezzin echoes across Addis. To me this is the sound of Africa. The first Muezzin was an Ethiopian Read more [...]
Anette Johnson attended high school with my mother in Ethiopia. She wrote me with some incredible pictures (of my mother) like the one above circa 1963. Anette organised a reunion in 2014. She Read more [...]
Here's how to enter for £100 win. All you do is quote two lines of my poem into a video camera or on your phone camera and email it to suresh@suryalumen.com. The whole poem is below. You can send Read more [...]
There are twenty one teams left in The FA Cup final. There is one poem commissioned by The FA. One poet who wrote it. The FA have released two verses so far. There are more verses to come. Here are Read more [...]
Abuse in childhood is most evident in the internal life of the adult. Many of us went into the care system simply to be cared for only to find ourselves stuck in a kafkaesque nightmare at Wood End. Read more [...]
I appreciate the messages from around the world about my morning tweets. I’ve been writing them for years. It's a way to stir the creative pond by my bed when I wake. It's certainly a way to Read more [...]
Deliverance is the title of our brand new documentary about women. It'll be broadcast on on BBC radio 3 - Feb 28th. This is how it came about. Some years ago the artist Kate Daudy captivated me Read more [...]
It's with great joy to announce that I will be performing in Addis Ababa in Late February. I'll be recording a programme for BBC in front of a live audience. I'll also be interviewing people about Read more [...]