Ethiopia Cancelled

Posted on July 27, 2012 by Lemn Sissay

It’s a pain when a promise gets retracted. I received the news only days after Ethiopian Television announced that my play, Something Dark, would be performed in Addis in September that the Read more [...]

Shipping Good. A new Landmark Poem at Greenwich Station.

Posted on July 27, 2012 by Lemn Sissay

A sneak preview of Shipping Good my new poem celebrating Royal Greenwich commissioned by Supergroup artist Morag Myerscough who is transforming the area outside Greenwich station to be launched in Read more [...]

Letter from a Pixelated Man.

Posted on July 25, 2012 by Lemn Sissay

Dear All, It’s happened since early teens I guess. From time to time you’ll find me gone. Those times are all to frequent (to me) when they happen and invisible to (my) memory when they don’t. Read more [...]

My Diesel Sunglasses.

Posted on July 15, 2012 by Lemn Sissay

Last night I read at Whitworth Art Gallery for We Face Forward. The audience was fantastic. It was a great gig. Afterwards I dropped by Contact Theatre to catch the last night of Contacting The Read more [...]

A New Film to Share. The Hopes of Ethiopia

Posted on July 10, 2012 by Lemn Sissay

Baaba Maal and the poets: Word Sound Power.

Posted on July 3, 2012 by Lemn Sissay

There have been a lot of highlights this year but last night topped them all. It was Word Sound Power at Southbank Centre. Poets and novelists read with Baaba Maal at the inaugral event for Africa Read more [...]

Urban poet in Bagpipe Addiction scandal.

Posted on June 30, 2012 by Lemn Sissay

Moniack Mhor.

Posted on June 29, 2012 by Lemn Sissay

Monhiack Mhor Writers Centre is part of Arvon Foundation. There are Arvon Foundation houses all over Britain. Moniack is about an half hour from Inverness and four miles from Loch Lomond in the Read more [...]

Far reaching Outreach – Simon Armitage The Artist in Residence.

Posted on June 29, 2012 by Lemn Sissay

I’m teaching at a residential course with Caroline Bird in The Highlands of Scotland at a place called Moniack Mhor. It explains my absence from the launch of the greatest gathering of poets on British Read more [...]

My anger is fired with love. (Not the other way round)

Posted on June 15, 2012 by Lemn Sissay