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bone
- Author
- Yrsa Daley-Ward
- Narrator
- Yrsa Daley-Ward, Kiese Laymon
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd
- Publish Date
- 23 August 2018
- Run Time
- 1 hour 36 minutes
- Format
- Audiobook
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Penguin presents the audiobook edition of bone written and read by Yrsa Daley-Ward, with a foreword read by Kiese Laymon.
OBSERVER BOOK OF THE YEAR 2017
'You will come away bruised.
You will come away bruised
but this will give you poetry.'
Raw and stark, the poems in Yrsa Daley-Ward's breakthrough collection strip down her reflections on the heart, life, the inner self, coming of age, faith and loss to their essence. They resonate to the core of experience.
'Yrsa's work is like holding the truth in your hands. A glorious living thing' Florence Welch
'One of the must-reads of the year' Rohan Silva, Evening Standard
'yrsa daley-ward's 'bone' is a symphony of breaking and mending. 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.' nayyirah waheed. author of salt. and nejma
'Sharing is her form of survival ... 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' i-D Magazine
Critics Review
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Honest, unflinching and unforgettable . . . one of Britain's best writers
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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.
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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
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[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
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[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
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One of the must-reads of the year
Evening Standard
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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
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Beautiful ... Moving ... Touching
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Sharing is her form of survival. ... Yrsa's Jamaican and Nigerian heritage, femininity, sexuality and mental health are just some of the themes explored within this 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
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Details
- Author
- Yrsa Daley-Ward
- Narrator
- Yrsa Daley-Ward, Kiese Laymon
- Duration
- 1 hour 36 minutes
- Release Date
- 23 August 2018
- ISBN
- 9780241985878
- Format
- Audiobook
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd
- Genre
- Poetry by individual poets, Modern and contemporary poetry (c 1900 onwards), Narrative theme: Love and relationships, Narrative theme: Identity / belonging, Narrative theme: Health and illness, Feminism and feminist theory
Synopsis
Penguin presents the audiobook edition of bone written and read by Yrsa Daley-Ward, with a foreword read by Kiese Laymon.OBSERVER BOOK OF THE YEAR 2017'You will come away bruised.You will come away bruisedbut this will give you poetry.'Raw and stark, the poems in Yrsa Daley-Ward's breakthrough collection strip down her reflections on the heart, life, the inner self, coming of age, faith and loss to their essence. They resonate to the core of experience. 'Yrsa's work is like holding the truth in your hands. A glorious living thing' Florence Welch'One of the must-reads of the year' Rohan Silva, Evening Standard'yrsa daley-ward's 'bone' is a symphony of breaking and mending. 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.' nayyirah waheed. author of salt. and nejma'Sharing is her form of survival ... 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' i-D Magazine
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