Exhausted I return to the stage after the applause and sat on stage for the beginning of the question time when a small woman of about sixty came and hugged me. “My son” she said “Who I searched for because of you. Remember him?”. I nodded in the affirmative. . Those moments after finishing a performance I’m open. The body and heart and brain seem to be in the process of recollecting themselves. It’s a vulnerable state. Read more [...]

This is the maiden tour date of Why I Don’t Hate White People and I am nervous I have been coming to crewe for years. The performing arts college is transformed since it was incorporated into Manchester University and rebuilt. Read more [...]

I felt, as I walked off stage, that I could lift the Southbank centre with my bare hands and slide it onto the thames and sail her out out, out into the open sea. Read more [...]

By the end of the week poems were falling through the ceiling sliding betwixt the wooden beams. On one day it snowed and covered our world in sheets of white paper as if early drafts had been torn up thrown into the clouds where they crystallized and returned in sheets. There were poems everywhere, of astonishing quality. Read more [...]

“I never trust a man who claims to be honest. You didn’t but convinced none the less that poets deal in universal truth. So why say in ten words what you can say in just two? Thank you. “ Read more [...]

The car hums like a quieter version of the plane. “Saw the spring lambs today” she says” as we sweep down into Belfast, into the mouth of Belfast lock. Read more [...]

See short Film "A spring Bee B at the Southbank Centre?" See video here. Read more [...]

See What If film here. Shown on Channel Four TV, as part of their Darwin Originals series in early 2009 and part of The Royal Academy GSK Contemporary Earth Exhibition December 2009 and January 2010. Broadcast as a project between Southbank Centre and Artsadmin. Vocals and Writing by Lemn Sissay, Piano Peter Edwards and Double Bass Gary Crosby. See film here. Read more [...]

See BBC short film called THOUGHT FOR THE DAY here. Shot in 2003 BBC TV Read more [...]