Awarded the 2024 Hay medal for poetry Lemn Sissay OBE FRSL  is also a playwright, memoirist, performer and broadcaster.  His latest book “Let The Light Pour In” is a Sunday Times Best Seller. The paperback comes out in 2025.  His autobiography My name is Why was a Number One Sunday Times Best Seller. In 2021 he helped select the work for Hold Still which also became a Sunday Times Bestseller.   His Theatre adaptation of Benjamin Zephaniah’s Refugee Boy is a text on The National Curriculum.