Poetry Club: Lemn Sissay - Digital Programme

POETRY CLUB:

LEMN SISSAY

“One of the most original, challenging poets writing in Britain today”

DAILY MAIL “His name is magic, his poems are songs on the street”

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POETRY CLUB:

LEMN SISSAY LET THE LIGHT POUR IN

22 Feb, 2024 Running Time: 1 hour Approx Poetry Club is supported by the T.S. Eliot Foundation

LET THE LIGHT POUR IN Our popular Poetry Club returns for 2024 with a special evening of live poetry from BAFTA-nominated, award-winning writer and broadcaster Lemn Sissay OBE, who will read from his latest collection, Let the Light Pour In. For the past decade, Lemn Sissay has composed a short poem as dawn breaks each morning. Life-affirming, witty and full of wonder, these poems chronicle his own battle with the darkness and are fuelled with resilience and defiant joy. Let the Light Pour In is a collection of the best of these poems, and a book celebrating his morning practice.

LEMN SISSAY OBE Lemn Sissay is a BAFTA-nominated, award-winning writer and broadcaster. He has authored collections of poetry and plays and his memoir My Name Is Why was a number one Sunday Times bestseller.

His Landmark poems are visible in London, Manchester, Huddersfield and Addis Ababa. He has been made an Honorary Doctor by the universities of Manchester, Kent, Essex, Huddersfield and Brunel, and in 2019 he was awarded the PEN Pinter Prize. He received an MBE in 2010 and an OBE in 2021 for services to literature and charity. In 2023, Sissay was awarded the Freedom of the City of London. He is British and Ethiopian.

‘How do you do it?’ said night ‘How do you wake up and shine?’

‘I keep it simple,’ said light ‘One day at a time’ Lemn Sissay, from Let the Light Pour In

MEDIA REVIEWS “I am not sure I've read a more beautiful poetry book” (Fearne Cotton) “Wonderful . . . one of these books that just makes you happy to have in your bag” (Jackie Kay) “I love Lemn for his hard-won light smashed out of darkness like gold from the rock.

Simple fast quatrains, dawn-written, day after day, just swallow one like an espresso and go” (Jeanette Winterson, New Statesman, Books of 2023) “This wee beauty has me hooked from the preface. We truly have a national treasure in Lemn Sissay” (Paterson Joseph) “If you're looking for love in every day, then find Let the Light Pour in by Lemn Sissay” (Jessica Hynes) “A master of words: what he manages to do with language is help us remember that each word is important” (Nihal Arthanayake) “Wonderfully quotable . . . within those four lines, so much is said” (Clare Balding) “The most lovely present” (Andi Oliver) “A delight and a balm” (Adjoa Andoh) “Full of resilience, defiance and joy” (Muddy Stilettos)

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