bone
$25.14
- Paperback
160 pages
- Release Date
30 October 2017
Summary
A new voice - honest and stark, raw and beautiful - emerges in this breakthrough work from Instagram star Yrsa Daley-Ward.
“You will come away bruised. You will come away bruised but this will give you poetry.”
Global star Yrsa Daley-Ward’s collection bone is something unique and beautiful. Visceral, revealing, and unrelenting, Yrsa’s poetry ranges from brief glimpses of stark emotional reality that have won her tens of thousands of Instagram followers to longer, ofte…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781846149665 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1846149665 |
| Author: | Kiese Laymon, Yrsa Daley-Ward |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Imprint: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 160 |
| Release Date: | 30 October 2017 |
| Weight: | 144g |
| Dimensions: | 198mm x 130mm x 12mm |
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Critics Review
Honest, unflinching and unforgettable … one of Britain’s best writers
Honest, unflinching and unforgettable … one of Britain’s best writers
an expert storyteller. of the rarest. and purest kind–daley-ward is uncannily attentive and in tune to the things beneath life. beneath the skin. beneath the weather of the everyday.
Yrsa’s work is like holding the truth in your hands. It sweats and breathes before you.
A glorious living thing
You may think poetry is not for you, but please push yourself a little, go out of your comfort zone and buy bone by Yrsa Daley-Ward … You will thank us for it * BBC Radio 5 Live *
[bone] will hit you like a gut punch … Some poems had me weeping; I printed others to pin to my wall for daily inspiration * Elle *
[Yrsa Daley-Ward] is at the realm of a new wave of contemporary poets who inspire an unprecedented level of empathy and accessibility through their honest and raw approach … [A] powerful collection of a woman facing tumultuous inner and external battles head on, delivered with a hard-hitting directness, yet with inflections of optimism throughout that are bound to touch readers to their core * i-D Magazine *
One of the must-reads of the year * Evening Standard *
Another stunning excavator of human heat and light, Yrsa Daley-Ward goes straight to the messy beating heart of animal attraction with bone, mesmerizing poems that strip bare the pain and beauty of negotiating longing, sex and love * Huffington Post *
Beautiful … Moving … Touching
About The Author
Kiese Laymon
Yrsa Daley-Ward is a writer, actor and model of Jamaican and Nigerian heritage. Raised by her devout Seventh Day Adventist grandparents in the small town of Chorley in the North of England, she now lives and works in New York City.
Yrsa recently appeared in Peter Bowker’s BBC drama WORLD ON FIRE, playing jazz piano player and singer ‘Connie Knight’. She starred alongside Helen Hunt, Sean Bean and Lesley Manville.
In her writing, Yrsa tackles issues dealing with all parts of the human condition, particularly those ‘we don’t tend to speak of,’ such as mental health, sexuality, love, grief and addiction. “If you are afraid to write it, that’s a good sign.”
As an author, she is best known for her debut collection Bone (2017) and her critically acclaimed poetic memoir The Terrible (2018), both published by Penguin.
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