Lemn Sissay was seventeen when he wrote his first poetry book, which he
hand-sold to the miners and millworkers of Wigan. Since then his poems
have become landmarks, sculpted in granite and built from concrete,
recorded on era-defining albums and declaimed in over thirty countries.
He has performed to thousands of football fans at the FA Cup Final, to
hundreds of thousands as the poet of the London Olympics, and to
millions across our TV screens and the airwaves of BBC Radio. He has
become one of the nation's best-loved voices.