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

Official Olympic poet:   Lemn is the first of five poets commissioned for the Olympic Park.  He wrote Spark Catchers about the women and girls of The Bryant and May Match Factory after reading the final sentence in a campaigning article written by Annie Besant in 1888.  The poem will be erected on the Olympic Site.

Spring News: Lemn will be appearing in Ethiopia,  France,  South Africa and Britain.  His  spring exhibition titled Sparked is inspired by Spark Catchers and will be at the viewtube. You could be one of the monthly 20,000 visitors to see it through April and May.

CLICK TO SEE LEMN SISSAY BBC DOCUMENTARY INTERNAL FLIGHT

Google “Lemn Sissay” and  all results will relate to him. There’s only one Lemn Sissay in the world.   Lemn Sissay is Trustee of World Book Night. Trustee of Forward Arts Foundation. Patron of The Letterbox Club. Patron of The Reader Organisation. Patron of coping. Patron of Cast and education ambassador for The Arvon Foundation.