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Lemn Sissay

April 2024

  • Lemn Sissay seated with his hands resting on the table in front of him

    Lemn Sissay: ‘brilliant’ plans to improve child social care ignored by ministers

  • Lemn Sissay posing for a photograph in front of trees in a garden or park

    Surge of interest in Ethiopian culture boosts case for return of treasures, says Sissay

February 2024

  • Laura Donnelly's character sits at the piano talking to the younger sisters

    The week in theatre: The Hills of California; Metamorphosis; Candace Bushnell: True Tales of Sex, Success and Sex in the City – review

    Dreams of fame trap and inspire in Jez Butterworth’s female-centred, Blackpool-set new play; Lemn Sissay takes a personal approach to Kafka; and the Sex and the City creator is full of unsurprises

January 2024

  • Lemn Sissay

    Audiobook of the week
    Let the Light Pour In by Lemn Sissay audiobook review – salutations to the dawn

    Every day for 10 years, Lemn Sissay rose to write a poem to the break of day, a witty and profound collection recited here with his customary verve

November 2023

  • Myra Barrs, director of the Centre for Literacy in Primary Educatiion from 1981 to 2003

    Myra Barrs obituary

    Literacy pioneer who championed children’s access to books and poems, and the use of storytelling, drama and role-play

October 2023

  • A composite image of two of Jon Daniels' designs, featuring John R Archer and Mary Seacole

    Jon Daniel and the black Britons who should be on a postage stamp

  • Poet Lemn Sissay, from waist up, against lemon background

    The Q&A
    Lemn Sissay: ‘I’d like to apologise to the Prince and Princess of Wales for not knowing when to leave their home’

September 2023

  • Less like a play than an art installation … L to r, Troy Glasgow (Mr Samsa), Felipe Pacheco (Gregor) and Joe Layton (Chief Clerk) in Metamorphosis.

    Metamorphosis review – Lemn Sissay adaptation is more poetic than dramatic

  • Frantic Assembly Athletic flow … Felipe Pacheco as Gregor Samsa and Hannah Sinclair Robinson as Grete.

    ‘This family is being devoured’: Lemn Sissay on why Kafka’s Metamorphosis is a tale for our times

August 2023

  • ‘Shame covers iniquity like a pink sky’ un Susannah Dickey’s Isdal

    Poetry roundup
    The best recent poetry – review roundup

    indiom by Daljit Nagra; The Lights by Ben Lerner; Isdal by Susannah Dickey; The Ferguson Report by Nicole Sealy; Let the Light Pour In by Lemn Sissay; For the Unnamed by Fred D’Aguiar

February 2023

  • Author and broadcaster Lemn Sissay.

    Lemn Sissay accuses children’s commissioner for England of failing children in care

    Poet and broadcaster says Rachel de Souza should be pushing ministers to do much more

August 2022

  • Lemn Sissay, Times UK, August 23, 2019<br>LONDON, ENGLAND - NOVEMBER 21: Author and broadcaster Lemn Sissay is photographed for Men's Health magazine on November 21, 2016 in London, England. (Photo by Hamish Brown/Contour by Getty Images)

    This much I know
    Lemn Sissay: ‘I’m not angry any more, but it’s a daily battle not to be’

    The poet and broadcaster, 55, on the power of forgiveness, growing up in care, loving poetry from the age of 12 and getting his OBE

July 2022

  • Paul de Gelder photographed at Charlie Beach, Marina Del Rey, California.

    The best original photographs from the Observer
    Original Observer photography

  • Adjoa Andohv. Russell T Davies . Michaela Coel

    Adjoa Andoh, Russell T Davies and Michaela Coel elected to Royal Society of Literature

June 2022

  • David Harewood, Lemn Sissay and Sophie Okonedo

    Stars urge Commonwealth to oppose UK plan to send refugees to Rwanda

    Celebrities including Sophie Okonedo and David Harewood say scheme shows ‘colonial view’ of Africa as ‘dumping ground’

February 2022

  • Poets Lemn Sissay (on left) and Valerie Bloom

    Flashback
    Lemn Sissay and Valerie Bloom look back: ‘I was a wild child when she met me’

  • It Fell from the Sky By Terry Fan and Eric Fan

    Children's book roundup
    Children’s and teens roundup – the best new picture books and novels

January 2022

  • Sunny © Taiyo Matsumoto Shogakukan (Vol 1) Superheroes, Orphans & Origins: 125 Years in Comics 1 April - 28 August 2022 The Foundling Museum

    ‘Me against the world’: why superheroes are so often orphans

    Batman, Spider-Man and many others lost parents when young. A new exhibition explores their complex stories

November 2021

  • Nicholai La Barrie

    Black talent takes centre stage at Lyric Hammersmith theatre

    Festival to celebrate black culture and creativity, with Lemn Sissay and Shingai as headline acts

July 2021

  • Imtiaz Dharker My Breath

    Poet Slash Artist review – if this show is art’s future, it looks good to me

    Home, Manchester
    A show about the relationship between seeing and reading feels like a return to Romanticism – a belief in the passionate expression of the spirit
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