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ABOUT THIS BOOK

PUBLISHER: Canongate Books

FORMAT: Electronic book text

ISBN: 9781847677433

RRP: £7.99

PAGES: 80

PUBLICATION DATE:
August 18, 2016

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Morning Breaks In The Elevator

Lemn Sissay

Six years after his last solo publication, Lemn Sissay brings togetherthe experiences of those intervening years in a stunning newcollection, Morning Breaks in the Elevator. In Sissay’s work,we witness declamation being honed and brought to fine art,establishing his reputation as one of the UK’s foremost poets as heably moves from loud protest through to quiet reflection.

Reviews of Morning Breaks In The Elevator

Bound to cause a storm rather than a smokescreen, Sissay's poetry is in turn sharp and beguiling, but always fresh…warm and frozen, but always hard-hitting, Morning Breaks demands that you tune in to this frequency

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Lemn Sissay

Lemn Sissay was born in 1967. He has performed on Leftfield’s Leftism album (over 100,000 copies sold in the UK), written the play Chaos by Design for Radio 4, and published a number of collections of poetry including Rebel Without Applause. He is also the editor of the highly acclaimed The Fire People, a collection of poetry by black British writers, published by Payback in 1998.