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“Thanks for dropping in. Check BBC radio’s  Great lives for Lemn’s remembrance  of  Prince Alemayhu.  His play acheived hit reviews across the nation. Now summer takes hold. Get in touch with his Morning tweets and follow him on Facebook for an even  more intimate relationship.

INSIDE   you’ll find interviews, speeches, radio plays,  landmark poems, video, monthly event listings, an up-to-date blog, photos, biographies and poems to read.

HOT SUMMER NEWS:  Lemn will be at Ethiopia National Theatre reading at The Organisation of African Unity 50th Anniversary Celebrations. He’ll be writer in residence at Greenwich Festival,  delivering a Tedx talk at The Houses of Parliament speaking at Letterbox  Club’s 10th Anniversary. (Film below enlarged)

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Google “Lemn Sissay” and all results will relate to him. There’s only one Lemn Sissay in the world.

He is Trustee of Forward Arts Foundation. Patron of The Letterbox Club. Patron of The Reader Organisation. Patron of coping and education ambassador for The Arvon Foundation. He is ambassador for The Children’s Reading Fund.

Go to radio to hear his BBC documentaries on The Last Poets, Bob Marley, Gil Scott Heron JB Priestley, WH Auden and many more plus his electric speeches.  And don’t forget his blog. He blogs openly for  personal reasons. You can speak to him directly in the comments to his blog.  High res photographs and detailed biography are here.

 

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