· My Name is Why () charts Sissay’s passage through the care system in Wigan via a combination of his own recollections and reports from the Authority, only recently made available to him after a year campaign. It is a harrowing insight into the early life of a man many will know through his poetry or other writing. · Lemn Sissay is one of the UK's most revered writers. He has authored several collections of poetry, as well as plays for both stage and public radio, and was. My Name Is Why is authentic and beautiful, a potential game-changer in public attitudes to children raised in care. It’s about bureaucratic cruelty, and what happens when love is absent. It’s about bureaucratic cruelty, and what happens when love is absent/5(K).
I read My Name Is Why in one sitting, crying and crying and smiling and shaking, gobsmacked at how Lemn Sissay was treated and what he went through.I am in awe of him and his strength and kindness, and the true gentleness that shines through him. What a book. Heartbreaking and raw and stark and beautiful - LISA FAULKNER Searing heartbreaking. Lemn Sissay will be reading from his new memoir: the Sunday Times No.1 Bestselling My Name Is Why reflecting on a childhood in care, self-expression and Britishness, and in doing so exploring the institutional care system, race, family and the meaning of home. This is Lemn's life story: a story of neglect and determination, misfortune and. Lemn Sissay. is a BAFTA-nominated, award-winning writer and broadcaster. He has authored 5 collections of poetry and plays. His Landmark poems are visible in London, Manchester, Huddersfield,, and Addis Ababa. He has been made an Honorary Doctor by the universities of Manchester, Kent, Huddersfield,, and Brunel.
My Name is Why () charts Sissay’s passage through the care system in Wigan via a combination of his own recollections and reports from the Authority, only recently made available to him after a year campaign. It is a harrowing insight into the early life of a man many will know through his poetry or other writing. My Name is Why () charts Sissay’s passage through the care system in Wigan via a combination of his own recollections and reports from the Authority, only recently made available to him after a year campaign. It is a harrowing insight into the early life of a man many will know through his poetry or other writing. My Name Is Why by Lemn Sissay review – a searing chronicle The care system’s brutal attack on a black child’s sense of self worth is targeted in the poet’s frank recollections of life in.
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