bone

An Observer Book of the Year for 2017

'You will come away bruised.

You will come away bruised

but this will give you poetry.'

Raw and stark, Bone is the first collection from poet and writer Yrsa Daley-Ward. Raised in Chorley in the north of England, her work draws on her early life and her Jamaican and Nigerian heritage.

Powerful and compelling, 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.