On my previous visit to Pakistan

Posted on February 12, 2013 by Lemn Sissay

I am flying to Karachi in a few hours, to Karachi Literature Festival . About a month ago I visited Islamabad and the vice chancellor of Fatima Jinnah University gave me a plaque. Read more [...]

The Dust Shakes Parnassus with Winning Words in 2012.

Posted on May 7, 2012 by Lemn Sissay

Poetry Parnassus, Winning Words, Shake The Dust and The World of Shakespeare festivals could make 2012 the biggest year for poetry since 1965 when The Royal Albert Hall sold out for a poetry reading by Read more [...]

SAVAGES.

Posted on April 26, 2012 by Lemn Sissay

This ALL WOMEN band have NEVER played live except here. Record companies across the world are shouting and screaming to sign them. Right now. If you trust me, that I don't say anything that isn't true, Read more [...]

Imagine all the people.

Posted on February 17, 2012 by Lemn Sissay

As the head teacher said to the burst balloon “you’ve let me down, you’ve let the school down but most of all you’ve let yourself down”. I blog about what I do. I should include my Read more [...]

Work in 2011. Part two of two.

Posted on January 1, 2012 by Lemn Sissay

We’re getting to the year-end now. November sees the end of The Superhero Project, which I put together for Ealing Social Services. It was a four-month series of arts activity. On average Ealing brought Read more [...]

Let There Be Peace. Manchester 2011.

Posted on December 9, 2011 by Lemn Sissay

As part of my Poems as Landmarks project the poem "Let There Be Peace" is being painted right now at University Place in Manchester University. Thanks to Andy Coles for kindly sending this photo. Read more [...]

Foster Kid Is Poetry Champ – A Superhero

Posted on December 9, 2011 by Lemn Sissay

“Foster Kid Is Poetry Champ” reads the Sun Newspaper this morning. Another child from The Superhero Project has won a national award. The first was a boy called Robert Marston who won the Foyles Read more [...]

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