Listener - Softcover

His name is magic, his poems are songs on the street. * * Independent * * Hugely enjoyable, inventive, funny and touching. * * Guardian * * The product of an imagination that is rare, passionate, committed, occasionally distraught and tender. * * Straight No Chaser * * Sissay writes of love, hate, politics and everyday trivia with an accessible, compelling and unusual honesty. * * Big Issue * * [Listener] presents on page its very own visual and musical sparkle... -- Mary Mazzilli * * Incorporating Writing * * A work of vision and playfulness whose poems address everything from war and colonialism to love e-mails . . . Piercingly beautiful. * * Big Issue * *

Listener overflows with love poems, inner-city soap operas, reflections on history, mystery and felicity and much more. Every page sings with Sissay's unique voice - visionary, good-humoured and bursting with life.