Let There Be Peace

Posted on March 23, 2012 by Lemn Sissay

Let There Be Peace By Lemn Sissay Let there be peace So frowns fly away like albatross And skeletons foxtrot from cupboards, So war correspondants become travel show presenters And magpies bring Read more [...]

Photographs: The first event in Addis “Welcome Home”.

Posted on March 22, 2012 by Lemn Sissay

The greatest photographs of an event such as this are of the audience. In the evening as part of Dicken's Bicentenary The British Council in Addis Ababa showed my film Internal Flight. Afterwards I spoke Read more [...]

Photographs: Addis welcomes me home.

Gallery

Posted on March 21, 2012 by Lemn Sissay

This gallery contains 28 photos.

Pictures: from the morning broadcast on Shegat Radio to lunch with the Ethiopian Poetry Parnassus writer Bewketu Seyoum.The restaurant is owned by Ethiopian Airlines first air hostess who was interviewed Read more […]

Photographs: Arriving in Addis

Posted on March 18, 2012 by Lemn Sissay

Ethiopian Airlines has always been stylish. Many of my family worked for Ethiopian in the 70's. My uncle was head of technical services, father a pilot and my aunts were "air hostesses". I arrived Read more [...]

The Gollywogs Have Gone! Highlights of the Week

Posted on March 17, 2012 by Lemn Sissay

Sunday . I’m one of four panelists including Jeremy Hardy on left at the Clore ballroom of Southbank Centre for Women of the World festival’s MENTALK. If you take the K from MENTALK..... The Southbank Read more [...]

Crashing Swans.

Posted on March 13, 2012 by Lemn Sissay

I'm driving. It’s Tuesday. 7.10am. My passenger screams. It’s not actually a scream. It’s a shout. It’s as loud as a scream. Can’t remember the word. A second splits. This is going to be Read more [...]

“My response to KONY2012”

Posted on March 9, 2012 by Lemn Sissay

A New Landmark Poem. A Press Release For Peace.

Posted on February 28, 2012 by Lemn Sissay

Today February 28th 2012 Vice Chancellor Dame Nancy Rothwell of Manchester University Dame launched my Landmark Poem. Here is BBC TV news footage followed by photographic record of the event. The Read more [...]

Superhero Stars of Literature and Film (pt 2)

Posted on February 26, 2012 by Lemn Sissay

Fostered, adopted and parentless children are written into the heart body and spirit of 20th and 21st Century culture. They star in our books films and religions. Even Jesus had a step-father and Read more [...]

Superhero Stars of Literature and Film (part 1)

Posted on February 26, 2012 by Lemn Sissay

Harry Potter. Pip in Great Expectations. Cinderella. Lisbeth Salander in the Steig Larrsons Millenium Series. Batman. Lyra Belacqua in Philip Pulman’s Northern Lights . James Bond. Mary Read more [...]