Experience poetry like never before! Join us for an engaging conversation and live stage event featuring the acclaimed British-Ethiopian poet, speaker, and playwright LEMN SISSAY.
For over a decade, Sissay has started each day by writing a poem as dawn breaks. The resulting collection of poems titled Let the Light Pour In provides a deeply personal template for facing life's darker moments with wit, resilience and joy. Let the Light Pour In showcases the finest of these morning poems and is shortlisted for the prestigious British Book Awards Non-Fiction Lifestyle & Illustrated Book of the Year 2024.
Come for the reading and conversation, stay for the drinks, snacks and friendly mingling afterwards.
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.
Location: We will gather for this special poetry event at Kjollergaard, Bornholm Island's Coolest Farm/Creative Hub. Formerly a pig farm, Kjollergaard has been reborn as a dynamic space for creative events, festivals, entrepreneurship, and global connections.
This event is part of No Place Is An Island, a new, global literary festival on Bornholm Island in Denmark, July 12-13, 2024. Founded by boutique literary nonprofit The Write Salon, the festival is organized in partnership with creative hub Kjøllergaard and Østersø Sonics.
For over a decade, Sissay has started each day by writing a poem as dawn breaks. The resulting collection of poems titled Let the Light Pour In provides a deeply personal template for facing life's darker moments with wit, resilience and joy. Let the Light Pour In showcases the finest of these morning poems and is shortlisted for the prestigious British Book Awards Non-Fiction Lifestyle & Illustrated Book of the Year 2024.
Come for the reading and conversation, stay for the drinks, snacks and friendly mingling afterwards.
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.
Location: We will gather for this special poetry event at Kjollergaard, Bornholm Island's Coolest Farm/Creative Hub. Formerly a pig farm, Kjollergaard has been reborn as a dynamic space for creative events, festivals, entrepreneurship, and global connections.
This event is part of No Place Is An Island, a new, global literary festival on Bornholm Island in Denmark, July 12-13, 2024. Founded by boutique literary nonprofit The Write Salon, the festival is organized in partnership with creative hub Kjøllergaard and Østersø Sonics.
Eintritt: 160 kr
