bone

Yrsa's work is like holding the truth in your hands. It sweats and breathes before you. A glorious living thing

Florence Welch

Beautiful ... Moving ... Touching

Sarah Brett, BBC Radio 5 Live

One of the must-reads of the year

Rohan Silva, Evening Standard

You may think poetry is not for you, but please push yourself a little, go out of your comfort zone and buy bone by Yrsa Daley-Ward ... You will thank us for it

Nihal Arthanayake, BBC Radio 5 Live

[bone] will hit you like a gut punch ... Some poems had me weeping; I printed others to pin to my wall for daily inspiration

Marta Bausells, Elle

Another stunning excavator of human heat and light, Yrsa Daley-Ward goes straight to the messy beating heart of animal attraction with bone, mesmerizing poems that strip bare the pain and beauty of negotiating longing, sex and love

Huffington Post

[Yrsa Daley-Ward] is at the realm of a new wave of contemporary poets who inspire an unprecedented level of empathy and accessibility through their honest and raw approach . . . [A] powerful collection of a woman facing tumultuous inner and external battles head on, delivered with a hard-hitting directness, yet with inflections of optimism throughout that are bound to touch readers to their core

i-D Magazine

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

Stormzy

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