OBSERVER BOOK OF THE YEAR 2017' Yrsa's work is like holding the truth in your hands A glorious living thing' Florence Welch' One of the must-reads of the year' Rohan Silva Evening Standard' You will come away bruised You will come away bruisedbut this will give you poetry' Raw & 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 & loss to their essence They resonate to the core of experience 'yrsa daley-ward's 'bone' is a symphony of breaking & mending an expert storyteller of the rarest & purest kind
- daley-ward is uncannily attentive & in tune to the things beneath life beneath the skin beneath the weather of the everyday' nayyirah waheed author of salt & nejma' Sharing is her form of survival A powerful collection of a woman facing tumultuous inner & external battles head on delivered with a hard-hitting directness yet with inflections of optimism throughout' i-D Magazine