Today on National Poetry Day  a child is about to win  one of the biggest young peoples poetry prizes in the country. The winning  poem came from The Superheroes Project which I run for young people Read more [...]

East London. At 6am  my local shop opened early to put my poems on their windows.  When it’s done I drive to Oxford Circus  for a 7.35am  interview on BBC radio with Gabby Roslin and Paul Ross.. Read more [...]

Franklyn Rodgers is at  www.franklynrodgers.com. He  crafts natural  light to tell the story.   Read more [...]

There was a boy who lived by the dark forest.  His name was Abebe and he had discovered a way through the  forest to the ring of free trees.  Once there, on tip toe,  he stretched out his hands and Read more [...]

Spent the day at Southbank Centre in the Sun working on an adaptation of Benjamin Zephaniah’s book Refugee Boy.    At five I cycle over to the British Library and read out the poems of Czeslaw Milosz Read more [...]

Travelled to Crystal Palace the southern high point of the capital city . It's here Franklyn Rodgers (right) photographed me (left) .  He uses film and natural light with remarkable results. Read more [...]

Times Newspaper. Saturday Oct 1st 2011     "Lemn Sissay on Cold by Annie Lennox Dying is easy, it’s living that scares me to death I could be so content hearing the sound of your breath Aged Read more [...]

I was here 25 years ago at Bogle L’ouverture. They published Linton Kwesi Johnson's  first book.  Mine too.  And now I’m back  in Ealing at  the  Town Hall with the Lord Mayor and a few hundred Read more [...]

Let me introduce to you the  talent of Choreographer for Africa Africa Georges Momboye whom I had the pleasure of meeting tonight.  Dance speaks for itself.

If I hear another person say how unnecessarily difficult it is to adopt a child in England I think I'll go nuts. Adoption is not like  supermarket sweep.  Natural birth takes nine months. It is not Read more [...]