The moon is the foster child of the sun. The sun can't light the darkness of night But the moon can. The moon can. Read more [...]
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National Care Leavers Week
“The Christmas Dinner” in Manchester
The Christmas Dinner is a pop up organisation of twelve professionals in the North West of England with over an hundred years experience of working with young people. We have come together to Read more [...]
Help. Something strange is happening to my name
This is a call for help . I'm self conscious about it. Something strange is happening to my name. A few months ago if you google "lemn sissay" using speech marks the return number was 185,000 Read more [...]
In honour of Mandela.
Leading writers, poets, musicians, performers and spoken word artists photographed on Wednesday 18 September, ahead of a sold out event at Southbank Centre in Nelson Mandela’s honour, where they Read more [...]
Screen Dance. The Art of Defining Me
"The Arts Council criteria for funding is to conform So if they pay the revolution the revolution will perform And if you can write along this dotted line your role in this society Then you can play Read more [...]
Undressing at Southbank Centre
At Southbank Centre there's a new festival wing being created and there's an exhibition about it. But seeing the word art has got my Jerry Lee's excited and they've started undressing in public. Not Read more [...]
Highlights of the Week: A room with a view to Ethiopia.
This is a run down of my week. I bump in to Jude Kelly and Jan Younghusband with my friend Lisa Dwan an international PR for The Onesie at Southbank centre. Jude takes us up – as ever – to A Room Read more [...]
Tesco write poetry? So do I.
Letterbox Live at Southbank Centre.
Today I introduced children's authors onto stage at Southbankcentre's Imagine Festival for Letterbox Live . Letterbox Live celebrates The Letterbox Club for which I am patron. Letterbox Club gets books Read more [...]