“An experiment in hope” is how accomplished spoken word poet, BAFTA-nominated author, activist, performer and Sunday Times number one best-selling author Lemn Sissay describes his decade-long practice of composing a four-line poem each morning as dawn breaks.

Life-affirming, witty and full of wonder, each short piece then travels the globe via a huge social media network to reach people starting their days across the world.

It’s poetry which Jeanette Winterson describes as “hard-won light smashed out of darkness like gold from the rock … swallow one like an espresso and go”.

Join this master wordsmith and performer in his first visit to AWF for an uplifting hour of defiant joy to begin your Festival day.