Lemn Sissay – Gold From the Stone

The Lyric Hammersmith are honoured to welcome one of Britain’s most popular and celebrated poets, Lemn Sissay, to their stage for the inaugural festival, For the Culture: Celebrations of Blackness.

Experience his seminal body of work with a selection of readings by Lemn himself as well as stories about his life and work.

Lemn Sissay was seventeen when he wrote his first poetry book, which he hand-sold to the miners and millworkers of Wigan. Since then, his poems have become landmarks, sculpted in granite and built from concrete, recorded on era-defining albums and declaimed in over thirty countries.