Listener

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Breaking the silence Lemn Sissay is back with a sensational new book. Listener overflows with love poems, inner-city soap operas, reflections on history, mystery and felicity and much more. Every page sings with Sissay's unique voice.

Lemn Sissay is an award-winning writer and popular broadcaster as well as being the author of five poetry books. He was made an Honorary Doctor of Letters by the University of Huddersfield and the University of Manchester. He was awarded an MBE by the Queen for services to literature. He was the official poet for the London 2012 Olympics. He has worked throughout the world and is patron of the Letterbox Club, supporting children in care. His work in the Arctic has featured at the Royal Academy and in galleries throughout the world. His Landmark poems can be found in London, Manchester, Huddersfield and Addis Ababa. In 2015 he was appointed Chancellor of the University of Manchester. He is British and Ethiopian.

* His name is magic, his poems are songs on the street. Independent * Hugely enjoyable, inventive, funny and touching. Guardian * The product of an imagination that is rare, passionate, committed, occasionally distraught and tender. Straight No Chaser * Sissay writes of love, hate, politics and everyday trivia with an accessible, compelling and unusual honesty. Big Issue * [Listener] presents on page its very own visual and musical sparkle... -- Mary Mazzilli Incorporating Writing * A work of vision and playfulness whose poems address everything from war and colonialism to love e-mails ... Piercingly beautiful. Big Issue