Lemn Sissay
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Lemn Sissay is a British author and broadcaster. He was the official poet of the 2012 London Olympics, was chancellor of the University of Manchester from 2015 until 2022, and joined the Foundling Mus
Sissay speaking at the Hopemas Christmas party in 2010
Extract from "The Gilt of Cain", a poem by Sissay, in Fen Court, London
Poem by Sissay on Hardy's Well, Manchester
Benjamin Zephaniah
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Benjamin Obadiah Iqbal Zephaniah was a British writer, dub poet, actor, musician and professor of poetry and creative writing. Over his lifetime, he was awarded 20 honorary doctorates in recognition o
Lemn Sissay
…ed. Deirdre Osborne; Sissay contributed "Something Dark"), Oberon Books, 2008. ISBN 978-1-84002-843-0. Refugee Boy, Bloomsbury stage adaptation of Benjamin Zephaniah's novel Refugee Boy, 2013. ISBN 978-1-47250-645-0 My Name Is Why, autobiography of his early life, with observations on the British care system. Canongate…
Zephaniah in 2018
Collecting the Hancock at Cambridge Folk Festival 2008, with Martin Carthy looking on