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Poet and playwright: Lemn Sissay

Poet and playwright: Lemn Sissay

The Interview vor 8 Jahren

How did Lemn Sissay find a remarkable poetic voice amongst dark and painful experiences?

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It is dangerous to generalise about the human impulse to create
art, but it does often seem to be linked to the experience of
dark and painful places Stephen Sackur speaks to Lemn Sissay - a
renowned poet and playwright whose writing and performances lay
bare his own intimate wounds. He was abandoned as a baby,
rejected by his foster family and abused in public institutions
of care. He has since been on a quest to understand his past and
piece together his identity. Along the way how did he find a
remarkable poetic voice?

Image: Lemn Sissay, Credit: BBC