'Honest unflinching and unforgettable... one of Britain's best writers' Stormzy'You will come
away bruised.You will come away bruisedbut 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
