How Do You Cope? …with Elis and John cover image

S3 Lemn Sissay: ‘I only knew the importance of family by not having it’

How Do You Cope? …with Elis and John

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Do You Know What Happened to You?

Poet's files are meticulously written about every two weeks in his life. Document is a sort of memory of you, but it's an official memory by people who don't seem to have your best interests at heart. We also tend to document the bad things and not the good things - he did this wrong,. And whenever I do something good, it's just, I mean it's a great document because it shows how institutions can even if they don't mean to just destroy a child.

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