Lemn Sissay: Morning Song

  • Sun 11 Aug 10:30 - 11:30
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Lemn Sissay: Morning Song

‘An experiment in hope’ is how poet Lemn Sissay has described his decade-long practice of composing a short poem each morning as dawn breaks. Just four lines, nothing more: and yet somehow the compact poems gathered in Let the Light Pour In contain multitudes. In an uplifting event on defiant joy in the face of darkness, Sissay talks to fellow poet, activist, and broadcaster, Salena Godden.

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Poetry & Performance
Poetry & Performance

Our line-up this year is a brilliant demonstration of everything exciting in UK poetry: diverse, eclectic in form and content, and ranging from ‘the best words, in the best order’ (to quote John Donne) to poems which demand to be spoken and lifted from the page completely…

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