Lemn Sissay was seventeen when he wrote his first poetry book which he h&-sold to the miners & millworkers of Wigan Since then his poems have become landmarks sculpted in granite & built from concrete recorded on era-defining albums & 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 & to millions across our TV screens & the airwaves of BBC Radio He has become one of the nation's best-loved voices