Lemn Sissay
Season 6, Episode 16
Poet Lemn Sissay joins Robin and Josie this week to talk about his first major acting role, being a poet as a full time job, some of his early poetry inspirations including Oku Onuora, Grace Nichols and Langston Hughes and the rise of great young, new poets such as Kate Tempest.
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Reading List
Lemn recommends:
Road by Jim Cartwright
The poetry of David Knopfler
The poetry of Linton Kwesi Johnson
Tender Fingers in a Clenched Fist by Lemn Sissay
Evidently Chickentown by John Cooper Clarke
The International Poetry Incarnation by Allen Ginsberg, Adrian Mitchell, Michael Hortovitz and others
Let Them Eat Chaos by Kate Tempest
The Mersey Sound poetry anthology
The work of Billy Childish
The poetry of Benjamin Zephaniah
The poetry of John Agard
God is in the House by Nick Cave
The poetry of George Spender
The poetry of Oku Onuora
The poetry of Valerie Bloom
The poetry of Grace Nichols
The poetry of Langston Hughes
The work of Gil Scott-Heron
The Cross and the Switchblade by David Wilkerson
The Autobiography of Malcom X by Malcom X and Alex Haley
The Famous Five series by Enid Blyton
The Bible
Josie recommends:
Taboo by Kim Scott
How to Become Ridiculously Well-read in One Evening by E.O. Parrott
The Neapolitan novels by Elena Ferrante
Forever by Judy Blume
Robin recommends:
The work of John Hegley
The Monkey’s Mask by Dorothy Porter
Something Dark by Lemn Sissay
The poetry of Linton Kwesi Johnson
From Her to Eternity by Nick Cave
The Beast Within by Émile Zola
Picnic at Hanging Rock by Hoan Lindsay
The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen by Alan Moore
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