Gold from the Stone

'A tremendous selection of his poetry... His gift as a writer - of plays, poetry, documentaries - is for turning life's base metal into gold.' - The Observer Gold from the Stone is a collection of new work and old favourites from national treasure and one of Britain's most exciting poets, Lemn Sissay. Lemn Sissay was seventeen when he wrote his first poetry book, which he hand-sold to the miners and millworkers of Wigan. Since then his poems have become landmarks, sculpted in granite and built from concrete, recorded on era-defining albums and 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, and to millions across our TV screens and the airwaves of BBC Radio. He has become one of the nation's best-loved voices.