Listener

by Lemn Sissay

Overview

Listener overflows with love poems, inner-city soap operas, reflections on history, mystery and felicity and much more. Every page sings with Sissay's unique voice - visionary, good-humoured and bursting with life.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781841958958
Publisher:	Canongate Books
Publication date:	06/04/2009
Edition description:	Main
Pages:	128
Product dimensions:	5.10(w) x 7.60(h) x 0.40(d)

About the Author

Lemn Sissay (born 1967) is a British poet. He is known for performances of his poetry, solo and also with jazz fusion groups. He is also a journalist, playwright, and presenter, working extensively on radio and television. He appears on the Leftfield album Leftism. He was born in Lancashire, of Ethiopian parents.

Editorial Reviews

[Listener] presents on page its very own visual and musical sparkle...

Incorporating Writing - Mary Mazzilli

Hugely enjoyable, inventive, funny and touching.

Guardian

His name is magic, his poems are songs on the street.

Independent

The product of an imagination that is rare, passionate, committed, occasionally distraught and tender.

Straight No Chaser

Sissay writes of love, hate, politics and everyday trivia with an accessible, compelling and unusual honesty.

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