#13 Lemn Sissay and the Story of Why

Lemn Sissay shoots from the hip and speaks from the heart in this interview about mother and baby homes, the Black Lives Matter campaign and his experience in the British care system.

“My name was changed, I was treated as property,” the poet and playwright Lemn tells City of Books presenter Martina Devlin.

Lemn was born in a mother and baby home in England to an Ethiopian mother, fostered out and returned to care at the age of 12 - as he tells in his powerful memoir My Name Is Why. But poetry gave him a sense of belonging in a world he couldn't fathom.

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