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why_balloo's review against another edition
challenging
dark
emotional
hopeful
reflective
relaxing
fast-paced
5.0
gellyreads's review against another edition
challenging
dark
emotional
hopeful
inspiring
reflective
sad
fast-paced
5.0
Really solid. I loved at least half of this collection. Bone, Battle, A Test, Who was doing what and where, and Quirk stand out the most for me.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Sexual assault, Rape, and Sexual content
simone_romeira's review against another edition
4.0
Marta said” Bone will hit hit you like a gut punch” and I have no other better description. I had no expectations for this one but my mind is blown. Telling a story in a different way but intense and beautiful
lbarsk's review against another edition
4.0
"You'd better learn to forgive yourself./ Forgive yourself instantly./ It's a skill you're going to need until you die."
I really appreciated how Daley-Ward was able to tell stories throughout Bone, from longer, more narrative poems to shorter pieces that seem "simple" at first glance but then really pack a punch. This is an excellent collection of poems and Daley-Ward is superbly talented.
I really appreciated how Daley-Ward was able to tell stories throughout Bone, from longer, more narrative poems to shorter pieces that seem "simple" at first glance but then really pack a punch. This is an excellent collection of poems and Daley-Ward is superbly talented.
africanbookaddict's review against another edition
4.0
!!! https://africanbookaddict.com/2016/05/31/poetry-bone-teaching-my-mother-how-to-give-birth-ebooks/
Bone is a brilliant collection of poems. I preferred the long poems- they read like short stories and were packed with suspense and emotion. I loved how the long poems started and how the plot unfolds towards the middle of them. I wasn't really crazy about how some of the poems ended though.
Most of the poems were on death, sex, family, relationships and Christianity. She blends her West Indian (Jamaican) and West African (Nigerian) cultures beautifully in this collection, esp with her references.
There's a good poem called 'mental health' that was pretty encouraging. Some of my fave quotes were: 'Loving someone who hates themselves is a special kind of violence. A fight inside the bones. A war within the blood.' ;
'If you were married to yourself could you stay with yourself? My house would be frightening and wild'.
I really like her writing style- its simple and packed with feeling. I didn't expect the poems to be as healing as fellow poet - Nayyirah Waheed's work, but they definitely hit home and made me realize how difficult and different some peoples' lives are from mine... Eye-opening. Don't sleep on Ysra Daley-Ward.
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Bone is a brilliant collection of poems. I preferred the long poems- they read like short stories and were packed with suspense and emotion. I loved how the long poems started and how the plot unfolds towards the middle of them. I wasn't really crazy about how some of the poems ended though.
Most of the poems were on death, sex, family, relationships and Christianity. She blends her West Indian (Jamaican) and West African (Nigerian) cultures beautifully in this collection, esp with her references.
There's a good poem called 'mental health' that was pretty encouraging. Some of my fave quotes were: 'Loving someone who hates themselves is a special kind of violence. A fight inside the bones. A war within the blood.' ;
'If you were married to yourself could you stay with yourself? My house would be frightening and wild'.
I really like her writing style- its simple and packed with feeling. I didn't expect the poems to be as healing as fellow poet - Nayyirah Waheed's work, but they definitely hit home and made me realize how difficult and different some peoples' lives are from mine... Eye-opening. Don't sleep on Ysra Daley-Ward.
More on africanbookaddict.com soon!
laurenkara's review
4.0
this was so powerful and hard hitting.
tw: for homophobia, religion, sexual abuse & rape
tw: for homophobia, religion, sexual abuse & rape