Teaching My Mother How To Give Birth by Warsan Shire Purchase bone by Yrsa Daley-Ward on Amazon Please don’t sleep on Ysra Daley-Ward! ★★★★ (4 stars) – Great book. bone definitely hit home and made me realize and appreciate how difficult and different peoples’ lives can be. The poems liberate you… They almost reminded me of – Nayyirah Waheed’s collection salt. 53)Įven though some of the poems read like short stories, there were healing elements to them that I really appreciated. If you were married to yourself could you stay with yourself? My house would be frightening and wild. Loving someone who hates themselves is a special kind of violence.
Yrsa Daley-Ward blends her West Indian (Jamaican) and West African (Nigerian) cultures beautifully in this collection, especially with her references to foods like Jollof rice, stereotypical Black woman mannerisms like eye-rolling and sucking of teeth etc. Most of the poems in bone have recurring themes of death, sex, family, relationships and Christianity. I enjoyed reading the long poems in this collection, as they read like short stories and were packed with lots of suspense and emotion! Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishingīone is a brilliant collection of poems. Yrsa Daley-Ward and Warsan Shire were on that list and I finally read their collections (e-books) a couple of months ago.īelow are two mini reviews of the poetry collections by two popular poets grabbing peoples’ attention in 2016. by Nayyirah Waheed, I listed a bunch of contemporary poets and my keen interest to enjoy their works in the near future.
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