16 must-read poetry books like Let the Light Pour In by Lemn Sissay

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Let the Light Pour In

By: Lemn Sissay

3.67

Format: 184 pages, Kindle Edition

THE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERA NEW STATESMAN BOOK OF THE YEARA SAINSBURY'S MAGAZINE BOOK TO G…

If you liked the poetry plot in Let the Light Pour In by Lemn Sissay , here is a list of 16 books like this:

Cover of Letters of Note: An Eclectic Collection of Correspondence Deserving of a Wider Audience by Shaun Usher

1. Letters of Note: An Eclectic Collection of Correspondence Deserving of a Wider Audience

By: Shaun Usher

3.99

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

Letters of Noteis a collection of one hundred and twenty five of the world's most entertaining, ins… read more

Similar categories in Shaun Usher's Letters of Note: An Eclectic Collection of Correspondence Deserving of a Wider Audience book and Lemn Sissay's Let the Light Pour In

  • nonfiction
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2. The Adoption Papers

By: Jackie Kay

3.63

Format: 353 pages, Paperback

Jackie Kay tells the story of a black girl's adoption by a white Scottish couple- from three differ… read more

Similar categories in Jackie Kay's The Adoption Papers book and Lemn Sissay's Let the Light Pour In

  • poetry
  • nonfiction
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3. poyums

By: Len Pennie

4.58

Format: 129 pages, Kindle Edition

And I have done more than just simply get by So much more than escape or survive Through the galv… read more

Similar categories in Len Pennie's poyums book and Lemn Sissay's Let the Light Pour In

  • poetry
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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4. Earth

By: John Boyne

4.34

Format: 168 pages, Kindle Edition

From million-copy-bestselling author John Boyne, an inescapably gritty story about one young man wh… read more

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  • contemporary
  • audiobook
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5. So Late in the Day

By: Claire Keegan

4.00

Format: 47 pages, Hardcover

After an uneventful Friday at the Dublin office, Cathal faces into the long weekend and takes the b… read more

Similar categories in Claire Keegan's So Late in the Day book and Lemn Sissay's Let the Light Pour In

  • contemporary
  • audiobook
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6. Choose Love

By: Nicola Davies

4.13

Format: 48 pages, Hardcover

Choose Love is a cycle of poems that highlights the experience of those forced to become refugees. … read more

Similar categories in Nicola Davies's Choose Love book and Lemn Sissay's Let the Light Pour In

  • poetry
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7. Away With Words

By: Sophie Cameron

3.89

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

Shortlisted for the Yoto Carnegie Medal for Writing 2024 Shortlisted for the UKLA Book Awards 2024… read more

Similar categories in Sophie Cameron's Away With Words book and Lemn Sissay's Let the Light Pour In

  • contemporary
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8. Pity

By: Andrew McMillan

3.71

Format: 192 pages, Kindle Edition

The town was once a hub of industry. A place where men toiled underground in darkness, picking and … read more

Similar categories in Andrew McMillan's Pity book and Lemn Sissay's Let the Light Pour In

  • contemporary
  • audiobook
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9. Just Sayin': My Life In Words

By: Malorie Blackman

4.53

Format: 267 pages, Kindle Edition

The long-awaited autobiography of one of the world's greatest children's writers, and an empowering… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"Sometimes, when love has flown or is absent, when life knocks us to the ground and won't let us get back up, hope may be all we have left to cling to."

-Malorie Blackman, Just Sayin': My Life In Words

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10. The Orange and Other Poems

By: Wendy Cope

4.19

Format: 53 pages, Kindle Edition

My heart has made its mind up And I'm afraid it's you. The Orange and Other Poems provides the … read more

Similar categories in Wendy Cope's The Orange and Other Poems book and Lemn Sissay's Let the Light Pour In

  • poetry
  • nonfiction
  • contemporary
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11. Restless Dolly Maunder

By: Kate Grenville

3.88

Format: 256 pages, Kindle Edition

Dolly Maunder was born at the end of the nineteenth century, when society’s long-locked doors were … read more

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  • audiobook
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12. Let the Light Pour In

By: Lemn Sissay

3.67

Format: 184 pages, Kindle Edition

THE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERA NEW STATESMAN BOOK OF THE YEARA SAINSBURY'S MAGAZINE BOOK TO G… read more

Similar categories in Lemn Sissay's Let the Light Pour In book and Lemn Sissay's Let the Light Pour In

  • contemporary
  • poetry
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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13. I Wish I Knew: Poems to Soothe Your Soul & Strengthen Your Spirit

By: Donna Ashworth

4.26

Format: 192 pages, Hardcover

In this fast-paced world, I Wish I Knew is a collection of poems to guide us through the wilderness… read more

Similar categories in Donna Ashworth's I Wish I Knew: Poems to Soothe Your Soul & Strengthen Your Spirit book and Lemn Sissay's Let the Light Pour In

  • poetry
  • nonfiction
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14. The Song Walker

By: Zillah Bethell

4.16

Format: None pages, None

"There are three questions that I need to find the answers to: -Where am I? -What am I doing here… read more

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15. Maurice and Maralyn: An Extraordinary True Story of Love, Shipwreck and Survival

By: Sophie Elmhirst

4.12

Format: 254 pages, Kindle Edition

**A Guardian, Observer & Waterstones Nonfiction Book of 2024**'One of those very special books that… read more

Similar categories in Sophie Elmhirst's Maurice and Maralyn: An Extraordinary True Story of Love, Shipwreck and Survival book and Lemn Sissay's Let the Light Pour In

  • nonfiction
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16. Blossomise

By: Simon Armitage

4.22

Format: 63 pages, Hardcover

Blossomise celebrates the ecstatic arrival of spring blossom just as it acknowledges, too, its mela… read more

Similar categories in Simon Armitage's Blossomise book and Lemn Sissay's Let the Light Pour In

  • poetry
  • nonfiction
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17. Lobster: and other things I’m learning to love: 'energising, fearless and joyful' Sara Pascoe

By: Hollie McNish

4.43

Format: 480 pages, Kindle Edition

A brand-new collection from the award-winning poet, the companion piece to the Sunday Times bestsel… read more

Similar categories in Hollie McNish's Lobster: and other things I’m learning to love: 'energising, fearless and joyful' Sara Pascoe book and Lemn Sissay's Let the Light Pour In

  • poetry
  • nonfiction
Cover of Getting Better: Life lessons on going under, getting over it, and getting through it by Michael Rosen

18. Getting Better: Life lessons on going under, getting over it, and getting through it

By: Michael Rosen

4.00

Format: 252 pages, Kindle Edition

In our lives, terrible things may happen. Michael Rosen has grieved the loss of a child, lived with… read more

Similar categories in Michael Rosen's Getting Better: Life lessons on going under, getting over it, and getting through it book and Lemn Sissay's Let the Light Pour In

  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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19. Gone Wolf

By: Amber McBride

4.12

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

Award-winning author Amber McBride lays bare the fears of being young and Black in America, in this… read more

Similar categories in Amber McBride's Gone Wolf book and Lemn Sissay's Let the Light Pour In

  • audiobook
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20. The Life and Rhymes of Benjamin Zephaniah: The Autobiography

By: Benjamin Zephaniah

4.33

Format: 320 pages, ebook

Benjamin Zephaniah, who has travelled the world for his art and his humanitarianism, now tells the … read more

Similar categories in Benjamin Zephaniah's The Life and Rhymes of Benjamin Zephaniah: The Autobiography book and Lemn Sissay's Let the Light Pour In

  • poetry
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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21. Where the Heart Should Be

By: Sarah Crossan

4.35

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

It is 1846 and Ireland is starving. The potatoes are black, people are dying and in the midst of… read more

Similar categories in Sarah Crossan's Where the Heart Should Be book and Lemn Sissay's Let the Light Pour In

  • poetry
Cover of The Summer We Crossed Europe in the Rain: Lyrics for Stacey Kent by Kazuo Ishiguro

22. The Summer We Crossed Europe in the Rain: Lyrics for Stacey Kent

By: Kazuo Ishiguro

3.88

Format: 98 pages, Hardcover

From the Nobel Prize–winning author of Klara and the Sun and Never Let Me Go comes a gorgeously ill… read more

Similar categories in Kazuo Ishiguro's The Summer We Crossed Europe in the Rain: Lyrics for Stacey Kent book and Lemn Sissay's Let the Light Pour In

  • poetry
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23. Hagstone

By: Sinéad Gleeson

3.63

Format: 307 pages, Kindle Edition

The sea is steady for now. The land readies itself. What can be done with the woman on the cliff? … read more

Similar categories in Sinéad Gleeson's Hagstone book and Lemn Sissay's Let the Light Pour In

  • contemporary
  • audiobook
Cover of Revolutionary Acts: Love and Brotherhood in Black Gay Britain by Jason Okundaye

24. Revolutionary Acts: Love and Brotherhood in Black Gay Britain

By: Jason Okundaye

4.45

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

Announcing the arrival of a major new talent, an astonishing work of social history which captures … read more

Similar categories in Jason Okundaye's Revolutionary Acts: Love and Brotherhood in Black Gay Britain book and Lemn Sissay's Let the Light Pour In

  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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25. What

By: John Cooper Clarke

4.02

Format: 64 pages, Hardcover

'Nothing short of dazzling' – Alex Turner Dr John Cooper Clarke's dazzling, scabrous voice has rev… read more

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  • poetry
Cover of And So This is Christmas: 51 Seasonally Adjusted Poems by Brian Bilston

26. And So This is Christmas: 51 Seasonally Adjusted Poems

By: Brian Bilston

4.02

Format: 83 pages, Hardcover

It’s that time of year again . . . With his signature wit, Brian Bilston returns with And So Thi… read more

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  • poetry
Cover of Wild Hope: Healing Words to Find Light on Dark Days by Donna Ashworth

27. Wild Hope: Healing Words to Find Light on Dark Days

By: Donna Ashworth

4.41

Format: 241 pages, Kindle Edition

Wild Hope is Donna Ashworth's powerful new collection of wisdom to help us find hope, peace, self-a… read more

Similar categories in Donna Ashworth's Wild Hope: Healing Words to Find Light on Dark Days book and Lemn Sissay's Let the Light Pour In

  • poetry
  • nonfiction
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28. Rare Singles

By: Benjamin Myers

4.09

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

A warm, tender and funny story about unlikely friendships, second chances, and the magic of soul mu… read more

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  • contemporary
Cover of More Fiya: A New Collection of Black British Poetry by Kayo Chingonyi

29. More Fiya: A New Collection of Black British Poetry

By: Kayo Chingonyi

4.01

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

The Sunday Times - 5 Best Poetry Books of 2022 In this blistering anthology, poet, editor and DJ Ka… read more

Similar categories in Kayo Chingonyi's More Fiya: A New Collection of Black British Poetry book and Lemn Sissay's Let the Light Pour In

  • poetry
  • nonfiction
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30. Validate Me: A life of code-dependency

By: Charly Cox

3.54

Format: 176 pages, Paperback

‘Charly is social media’s answer to Carol Ann Duffy’ Sunday Times STYLE [Charly] is turnin… read more

Similar categories in Charly Cox's Validate Me: A life of code-dependency book and Lemn Sissay's Let the Light Pour In

  • poetry
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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31. Little Things: A Positive Toolkit for When Life Feels Stressful

By: Fearne Cotton

3.84

Format: 335 pages, Kindle Edition

How to make small changes to feel better, even when under stress.Stress is a normal part of life, b… read more

Similar categories in Fearne Cotton's Little Things: A Positive Toolkit for When Life Feels Stressful book and Lemn Sissay's Let the Light Pour In

  • nonfiction

8 must-read contemporary books like Let the Light Pour In by Lemn Sissay

Transform Your Habits

Earth

John Boyne

4.34

Transform Your Habits

So Late in the Day

Claire Keegan

4.00

Transform Your Habits

Away With Words

Sophie Cameron

3.89

Transform Your Habits

Pity

Andrew McMillan

3.71

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10 Top audiobook books like poyums by Len Pennie

Transform Your Habits

poyums

Len Pennie

4.58

Transform Your Habits

Pity

Andrew McMillan

3.71

Transform Your Habits

Queen Macbeth

Val McDermid

3.77

Transform Your Habits

Let the Light Pour In

Lemn Sissay

3.67

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