Welcome to my web page.  Thanks for dropping in. Its October  the month of light and brown and The Colour Purple, mahogany, cocoa, of latte, chocolate. I mean does it get any better in terms of colour.

The picture on the left was sent to me by Al Balmer. Other photographs of my dreadlocked  days are here on the biog and pics page.  

Lots happening.  I shall be Patron along with Jaqueline Wilson, of The Letterbox Club. Highlight gig of the month is a benefit for ovarian cancer called  Linda Smiths Favourite Things at Victoria Palace Theatre London on 28th. Other artists include Dara Obrien, Jo Brand, Phil Jupitus Maureen Lipman. Book soon. It will sell out.    

The other very special event is 24 hour party people? at The South Bank Centre. All my gigs this month across Britian are on the listings page.

A poem of mine, Catching Numbers, has been erected in Manchester last month - see Public Art Page.   I’m absolutely loving my time as writer in residence at  The South Bank Centre . There’s the SouthBankBlog on the left. If you have suggestions of writers you would like to see on stage at The South Bank then send me a message on the blog. My desk at the centre is  in The Riverside Rooms.  The artists in residence website is here.

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 - no other. Bizarre Fact:  Received an email to say that Sissay in Quecha a native American tongue means “Blossoming spirit”.