DURHAM LITERATURE FESTIVAL 2000

 

LEMN SISSAY

Poet and recording artist, fusing the lyrical and the polemical, up-beat humour and deadly seriousness and demonstrating rare vocal virtuosity and dynamism, Lemn Sissay’s performances are legion.

His books are published by Bloodaxe, Bogle L’Ouverture and Payback, including the recent Morning Breaks In The Elevator. His recording work includes collaborations with a number of jazz-fusion outfits including Secret Society, Working Week, Left Field and Disjam. A new selected spoken-works CD, Different Drums, is due out from 57 Productions in Spring 2000.