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ANTHEM OF THE NORTH - LEMN SISSAY - The Poetry Book Society
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 foot
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"When Frantic Assembly asked me to write a play, an adaptation of Franz Kafka's novella Metamorphosis, the first thing I did was run away!" - Lemn Sissay Tues 23 - Sat 27 Jan  Book now: https://bit.ly/3L1dPLU | Belgrade Theatre, Coventry | Facebook
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