Pele's Poetry Series: Lemn Sissay

Name: Pele\'s Poetry Series: Lemn Sissay
Start: 2025-04-24T19:30:00+01:00
End: 2025-04-24T19:30:00+01:00
Location: Auditorium

April 24, 2025 @ 7:30 PM

‘LET THE LIGHT POUR IN’ LEMN SISSAY OBE, READS FROM HIS AWARD WINNING POETRY COLLECTION

Let the Light Pour in is a celebration of Lemn Sissay’s decade-long morning practice and ode to morning rituals and carving out space each day for reflection and creativity.

Over ten years, Lemn Sissay OBE has composed a short poem as dawn breaks each morning. Life-affirming and full of wonder, these poems chronicle his own battle with the darkness and are fuelled with defiant joy.

This is a new collection from Lemn Sissay – one of the best and most beloved British poets of our time. This is his first book for adults since the number one bestselling My Name is Why.

His verse has appeared widely across Radio 4, BBC TV and broadsheet media.

Lemn Sissay is a BAFTA-nominated, award-winning writer and broadcaster. He has authored collections of poetry and plays and his memoir My Name Is Why was a number one Sunday Times bestseller.

His Landmark poems are visible in London, Manchester, Huddersfield and Addis Ababa. He has been made an Honorary Doctor by the universities of Manchester, Kent, Essex, Huddersfield and Brunel, and in 2019 he was awarded the PEN Pinter Prize. He received an MBE in 2010 and an OBE in 2021 for services to literature and charity. In 2023, Sissay was awarded the Freedom of the City of London. He is British and Ethiopian.

‘OUTSTANDING’ MATT HAIG

‘ONE OF THE MOST ORIGINAL AND CHALLENGING POETS WRITING IN BRITAIN TODAY’ DAILY MAIL

‘HIS NAME IS MAGIC – HIS POEMS ARE SONGS ON THE STREET’ INDEPENDENT

Dinner and a Show!

Bill's Kitchen, within Ludlow Assembly Rooms, is now offering a 2-course meal before the show for only £15 (if booked 24 hours in advance). Book your table directly with Bill's Kitchen and come along any time after 5.30pm to eat before the show starts – the earlier you come the bigger the menu selection. Please note that due to the popularity of these events you may be invited to share a table with other diners on the night.

_For information about the meals, please contact Bill’s Kitchen directly on 01584 877956 or please book via the _Bill's Kitchen meal-deal booking page