Manorism

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It is also an exploration of the differences of impunity afforded to white and Black people, and to white and Black artists. A collection of channeled Black urban anger poems offset by a more tender series mourning the death of a female relative. The first being a collection of poetry by Ben Okri, “A Fire in my Head”, and the second - if it counts - “Clap When You Land”, a novel in verse by Elizabeth Acevedo - which I hand on heart loved by the way. I was fortunate to attend a reading event with the Author himself and it really brought each of these poems to life and the thread between each poetry in this collection! What I did not like was how I Jumped on the net galley app and on google because I had to translate some words.

Sode talks about a number of topics, from black Britishness to masculinity, community and popular culture. But then the focus shifts and we are seeing Caravaggio and his dispute with a waiter in another time over a plate of artichokes.I suspect that, like those precursors, this is a book best heard in performance, given that Sode honed his skills on London's open mic circuit. It is an honour to know my work will be joining the likes of Terrance Hayes, Caleb Femi and Claudia Rankine. In his juxtapositions of paintings, black urban life and media , he makes us think of what poetry can be: that t he book itself is the poem, and each topic a stanza in a bigger epiphany . It's moving, conpelling and 'pleasurable' in the sense that all good poetry is - it expresses something ineffable with beauty, poignancy, humour, and style.

Hotjar sets this cookie to know whether a user is included in the data sampling defined by the site's daily session limit. The focus of the speaker encompasses not only major issues but zooms in on the small events of the everyday. Payments made using National Book Tokens are processed by National Book Tokens Ltd, and you can read their Terms and Conditions here.This collection is deeply insightful while still demonstrating the skill to read like a one on one conversation with Yomi himself. His debut collection Manorism, published by Penguin in October 2022 alongside a stage adaptation at the Southbank Centre, was shortlisted for the Rathbones Folio Prize 2023 and the T S Eliot Prize 2022. The _ga cookie, installed by Google Analytics, calculates visitor, session and campaign data and also keeps track of site usage for the site's analytics report.

Caravaggio - originally, unexpectedly - looms large: as a man who moved between spheres of exalted patronage and petty criminality; as a painter who, amid the elegant conventions of late Mannerism, forged his own style of visceral dark and light; and as an individual whose recognized genius was allowed to legitimate and excuse his violence. This is not a criticism but it seems to me that Sode's poetry works more effectively as oral, performance verse rather than textual, written-down verse - its complexity and power is in the emotion and ideas that are articulated with force and a directness that is about a strong voice and a pointed passion.Yomi Sode's Manorism has both its feet planted firmly on the ground - but as a collection, it spends much of its existence split between various opposing worlds of imagination: Black and white, past and present, peaceful and chaotic . The poems turn from an observational, plainly descriptive register to a more poetic perspective effortlessly. not because i don’t find it interesting or impressive, but just because i’m pretty oblivious to “deeper meanings” and metaphors most of the time, party because of the autism and partly because i don’t know how to pick them out and properly think about them. Ode, a British Nigerian poet and performer, we step into Yomi’s world – a diaspora of people and places, family and friends, which stretches from Nigeria to Brixton and Dalston in London, UK.