Step into Spring: Lemn Sissay - Let The Light Pour In

BAFTA-nominated author, activist, poet and performer Lemn Sissay OBE joins Step Into Spring with a live poetry performance drawing on his Sunday Times bestselling collection, Let The Light Pour In.

For the past decade, Lemn has composed a short poem as dawn breaks each morning. Life-affirming, witty and full of wonder, these poems chronicle his own battle with the darkness and are fuelled with resilience and defiant joy.

Let The Light Pour In is a true celebration of Lemn’s decade-long morning practice; an ode to morning rituals and carving out space each day for reflection and creativity.

Don’t miss this opportunity to see one of the best and most beloved British poets of our time light up the stage.

‘How do you do it?’ said night

‘How do you wake up and shine?’

‘I keep it simple,’ said light
‘One day at a time.’

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.