Lemn Sissay Collection 2 Books Set Gold from the Stone, My Name Is Why Paperback
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My Name Is Why
At the age of seventeen, after a childhood in a foster family followed
by six years in care homes, Norman Greenwood was given his birth
certificate. He learned that his real name was not Norman. It was Lemn
Sissay. He was British and Ethiopian. And he learned that his mother
had been pleading for his safe return to her since his birth.This is
Lemn's story: a story of neglect and determination, misfortune and
hope, cruelty and triumph.Sissay reflects on his childhood,
self-expression and Britishness, and in doing so explores the
institutional care system, race, family and the meaning of home.
Written with all the lyricism and power you would expect from one of
the nation's best-loved poets, this moving, frank and timely memoir is
the result of a life spent asking questions, and a celebration of the
redemptive power of creativity....
Gold from the Stone: New and Selected Poems: 70 (Canons)
Lemn Sissay was seventeen when he wrote his first poetry book, which
he hand-sold to the miners and millworkers of Wigan. Since then his
poems have become landmarks, sculpted in granite and built from
concrete, recorded on era-defining albums and declaimed in over thirty
countries.He has performed to thousands of football fans at the FA Cup
Final, to hundreds of thousands as the poet of the London Olympics,
and to millions across our TV screens and the airwaves of BBC Radio.
He has become one of the nation's best-loved voices.....
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