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Artist in residence at The SouthBank Centre

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MARCH 08

Starting to Write? I’m, teaching a residential course with  writer Maggie Gee,  in Devon on  16th June 22nd June.  It's a gorgeous thatched farmhouse   Come along. Click to find out more.

I'm commissioned to write a poem by The City of London whcih will be inlaid into a sculpture in Fen Court near Fenchurch St Station London. Find out more here. click

Bizarre fact:  The  name on my birth certificate is  an original throughout the world. If you google “Lemn Sissay” the only responses will be about myself

Bizarre Fact: Received an email to say that Sissay in Quecha a native American tongue means “Blossoming spirit”.

 

All the news latest news about Lemn Sissay in March 08:

 

On the way to Los Angeles Airport I saw this Car

How you doing? Thanks for dropping by. I saw this car on my way to the airport in Los Angeles, returning in February from a British Council Residency at California State University.

But it's march now and I am back in England. The Olympic Torch Song I wrote will be sung at The Royal Festival Hall by Lambeth Schools on 28th.

March 24th I'm presenting a documentary called The Black Boy on BBC Radio 4 on at 11am.

On March 13th My Play Something Dark will be published in Hidden Gems by Oberon Books as part of alongside writers such as Lennie James. It’s edited by Deidre Osborne and launched at a conference On Whose Terms Critical Negotiations in Black British Literature at  Goldsmiths college.

.I'm judging for the Index on Censorship Freedom of Expression awards 2008.  Other judges are Maureen Freely (writer, academic and translator of Orhan Pamuk), Rabinder Singh QC (leading human rights lawyer) and Peter Wright (Editor of Mail on Sunday). The books are coming in this month and the winners will be announced on 21st April.

I've been working on a project called The Long Walk with genius composer and musician Pete Moser. It is a project by More Music Morcambe in reaction to the deaths of the Chinese Cocklers and shall be performed in Liverpool on 13th and 14th March as part of Liverpools City of Culture. Click here to find out more.

Each seven years I publish one book of poetry so the next called Listener   will be out on Canongate in September 08.

Listen out for my poetry on BBC radio 4's Saturday Live.  Keep a watch on my blog for offline news online.  For live appearances   see the readings page. 

 

SOUTHBANK RESIDENCY EVENTS : APRIL 17th. Duwayne Brooks survived the attack, Stephen Lawrence did not. Brooks alongside Guardian journalist Simon Hattenstone read from their book Steve and Me. I shall be reading at this event at The South Bank Centre. Click here for more.

SOUTHBANK RESIDENCY EVENTS: APRIL 25th. Three events on one night called Bloodshot Monochrome. In the first room is The book launch of Patience agbabi, with Parliamentary writer in residence Rommi Smith and musical poetical genius Salena Godden Click Here. In the middle The Hub there'll be the DJ Dave Haslam. And on the other side of The Spirit Level in the second room more excellent poets David J, John Berkovitch and Julian Daniel. Click Here.

SOUTH BANK RESIDENCY EVENTS: MAY 10th.  BBC Radio FOurs Saturday Live Poets presented by Fi Glover. All of The BBC's Saturday Live Poets on at The Purcell Rooms: Murray Lachlan Young, Mat Harvey, Kate Fox, Elvis McGonagal and I.

 

 

 

 

 

 

For all live events enquiries email my new live event and appearances agent Ruth Hey.click here.

For commissions and project management enquiries email Gill Lloyd at Artsadmin. Click here.