Hi thanks for dropping by my site. Merry Xmas and Happy New Year.

The picture is of Chancellor of University of Huddersfield Patrick Stewart where I became an Honorary Doctor of Letters in late November.

The latest Poem as Landmark project is "I Test" painted onto the walls of Toynbee Studios in East London and featured in The Guardian.

If you get chance go to The GSK Contemproary Earth Exhibition at The Royal Academy in London where I have a piece called What IF.

From my residency at Southbank centre See Global Poetry System a user generated website to display an integral part of our everyday lives. 

Latest news: I shall be judge of the Index on Censorship Awards 2010.I've been made an Honorary Doctor of Letters by University of Huddersfield.  

Keep a watch on the  BLOG for offline news online. My book Listener is in the picture on the left. Click and it takes you to Amazon where you can read a few of the poems.  The picture to the right is by Dominique Brewster.

It's a Bizarre fact:  My birth name is  an original. If you google “Lemn Sissay” the only responses will be about myself 

Patron of The letterbox club . Patron of The Huddersfield Literature Festival 2010.