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Yrsa Daley-Ward

    Yrsa Daley-Ward est une écrivaine et poétesse d'héritage mixte des Antilles et d'Afrique de l'Ouest. Son œuvre, façonnée par une éducation dans un environnement pieusement religieux du nord de l'Angleterre, explore les thèmes de l'identité et de l'héritage avec une honnêteté sans faille. Par des images puissantes et brutes et un langage incisif, Daley-Ward révèle les complexités de l'expérience humaine. Sa poésie et sa prose résonnent d'une urgence et d'une vulnérabilité qui lui ont valu un lectorat dévoué.

    Bone
    The How
    The Terrible
    • The How

      • 192pages
      • 7 heures de lecture

      A treasure trove of inspiration and an invitation for personal renewal from the acclaimed author of bone and The TerribleWe still dream though, don't we? We are gifted with a way into ourselves, night after night after night.Yrsa Daley-Ward's words have resonated with hundreds of thousands of readers around the world: through her books of poetry and memoir bone and The Terrible, through her powerful writing for Beyoncé on Black Is King and through her always-illuminating Instagram posts.In The How, Yrsa gently takes readers by the hand, encouraging them to join her as she explores how we can remove our filters, and see and feel more of who we really are behind the preconceived notions of propriety and manners we've accumulated with age. With a mix of short, lyrical musings, immersive poetry and intriguing meditations, The How can be used to start conversations, to prompt writing, to delve deeper - whether you're on your own or with friends, on your feet or writing from the solace of home.'Lyrical . . . visceral truth is at the heart of her work' i Newspaper

      The How2021
      4,3
    • The Terrible

      • 214pages
      • 8 heures de lecture

      You may not run away from the thing that you are because it comes and comes and comes as sure as you breathe.' This is the story of Yrsa Daley-Ward, and all the things that happened - 'even the Terrible Things (and God, there were Terrible Things)'. It's about her childhood in the north-west of England with her beautiful, careworn mother Marcia, Linton (the man formerly known as Dad, 'half-fun, half-frightening') and her little brother Roo, who sees things written in the stars. It's about growing up and discovering the power and fear of her own sexuality, of pitch grey days of pills and powder and encounters. It's about damage and pain, but also joy. Told with raw intensity, shocking honesty and the poetry of the darkest of fairy tales, The Terribleis a memoir of going under, losing yourself, and finding your voice.

      The Terrible2018
      4,3
    • Bone

      • 160pages
      • 6 heures de lecture

      'Honest, unflinching and unforgettable... one of Britain's best writers' Stormzy '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 '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

      Bone2017
      4,2