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Street poet to run workshop at Ted Hughes Theatre
THE world's most unusual street poet is coming to Mytholmroyd to read his work and run a poetry workshop.
Lemn Sissay has written and read his poems in all sorts of weird places and they now appear as public art on buildings and in streets in Manchester.
Now he is bringing his own distinctive brand of poetry performance to the Ted Hughes Festival.
Sissay was brought up in a succession of foster homes and children's homes in Lancashire.
He published his first work, Perceptions of the Pen in 1986, and set up a gutter-cleaning service which had a poem on its leaflet.
But when his ladders were stolen, he moved to Manchester to concentrate on poetry. He was one of the first black literature development workers in Britain, and set up a community publishing house called Cultureworld.
A performance workshop for teenagers is on Monday, at 3.30pm in the Ted Hughes Theatre, Calder High School. It is limited to the first 15 applicants but that evening Sissay will read from his own work, also in the Ted Hughes Theatre, at 6pm.
Tickets can be booked by calling 07592 577482 or at the festival shops in Mytholmroyd – Milly's Caf from 9am to 3pm and the Erringden Rooms at St Michael's Church from 4pm to 7pm.
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