Blogging Tides Nairobi Skies.

Posted on September 16, 2012 by Lemn Sissay

I’ve been attempting to write my thoughts on Nairobi and it’s like Juggling Jelly on a bouncy castle. I’ve started this paragraph an hundred times only to crawl out of it splattered with the sticky Read more [...]

Masterclass in Nairobi

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Flying solo

Posted on September 12, 2012 by Lemn Sissay

Time was I'd board a plane with undeclared items of pure class A excitement. Each time a line rushed through my blood stream and exploded in my head "Man! Poetry put me here". I was defying gravity like Read more [...]

The Zombie, the DJ and Canterbury Tales.

Posted on September 10, 2012 by Lemn Sissay

This (L) is Carla Henry and Yusra Warsama - actors - after I showed my film Internal Flight at Manchester Art Gallery. Carla is in a new TV series coming soon called Frankie and Yusra has just returned Read more [...]

A letter to Edward Timpson MP

Posted on September 7, 2012 by Lemn Sissay

Dear Edward Timpson MP, Congratulations on your appointment as junior minister in the department of education with responsibility for adoption and children in care. You have two adopted younger brothers Read more [...]

Filming has started. Action.

Posted on August 22, 2012 by Lemn Sissay

Life’s taken a turn. I’m filming - I’m presenting - a brand new show for one of the major broadcasting channels with a great independent television company. I believe in this project. Read more [...]

New Landmark Poem in Greenwich

Posted on August 17, 2012 by Lemn Sissay

There are a couple of ways out of Greenwich station. If you go by Waller way you’ll see my latest Landmark poem on the hoardings. Walk two hundred yards along the poem and you’ll come to MVMENT Read more [...]

My Morning Tweet Made Into A Real Cafe.

Posted on August 16, 2012 by Lemn Sissay

The pop up cafe is outside Greenwich Station. It is a thing of beauty. You can drink coffee beneath my morning tweet. Morag Myerscough is the creator of this. She has utilized my words in a way Read more [...]

Greenwich MVMNT.

Posted on August 16, 2012 by Lemn Sissay

A chat over a pint in a pub in Manchester about writing a poem for its outer wall has become a lifelong project. Poetry as Landmarks grew from the giant poem painted on the side of that same Read more [...]

A bus doing press ups in Angel. Only in London!!

Posted on July 30, 2012 by Lemn Sissay