If you like to be jolted out of your comfort zone, read bone by Yrsa Daley-Ward. The 72 poems in the collection are always arresting and often shocking, telling you this is who the poet is, like it or lump it. And she doesn’t care if you lump it.
As you read through poems of love, struggle, power, sensuality, sadness, joy, and trauma, you sense the poet is someone who not only defies expectations but also ignores them. Born in northern England of a Jamaican mother and a Nigerian father, Daley-Ward was raised by her Seventh Day Adventist grandparents. She struggled to support herself through her art and moved to South Africa, where she worked as a writer and often performed her poetry.
To continue reading, please see my post today at Tweetspeak Poetry.
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