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About Lemn Sissay: Let The Light Pour In

Join us for a special performance and poetry reading with acclaimed writer Lemn Sissay (OBE, FRSL), featuring an audience Q&A and book signing.

Author of the #1 Sunday Times bestseller Let The Light Pour In, Sissay will share this remarkable collection, featuring poems written as dawn breaks each morning, celebrating this morning practice. Life-affirming, witty and full of wonder, these poems chronicle his own battle with the dark and are fuelled by resilience and defiant joy.

Lemn Sissay is one of Britain's most celebrated contemporary voices. His bestselling memoir My Name Is Why topped the Sunday Times charts, and he has performed everywhere from the Library of Congress in America to the London Palladium. Don't miss this rare opportunity to experience his powerful words in person.

Lemn Sissay © Ivan Weiss

Tickets go on sale to the public at 9am, Fri 29 November. Supporters' Circle priority booking opens 9am, Thu 28 November.

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