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yrsa daley ward
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Années 80, nord de l'Angleterre. Yrsa grandit avec son frère Little Roo et sa mère infirmière, dans un quotidien que leurs rêveries d'enfants illuminent. Mais leur mère les confie un jour à leurs grands-parents, très religieux. Tiraillée entre une éducation sévère et ses désirs naissants, Yrsa va vivre, de manière sourde puis frontale, l'emprise des hommes sur son corps transformé. Il va falloir partir. Il va falloir se battre.
Poétesse reconnue, collaboratrice de Beyoncé, Yrsa Daley-Ward nous emporte avec elle dans ses mémoires de fille, d'ado rebelle, d'escort perdue à Londres, d'une artiste dans l'âme, d'une femme en pleine conquête d'elle-même. Expérience de lecture unique et inspirante, La Vie précieuse a été salué dans le monde entier. -
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Hailing from the northwest of England, Yrsa Daley-Ward is a poet, writer, and actress of mixed Jamaican and Nigerian heritage. She is the author of The How, bone, and The Terrible her autobiographical novel, for which she won the PEN Ackerley Prize. She is most known for her debut book, Bone, Penguin Books, as well as for her live poetry performances. Yrsa fuses poetry with theatre, music, and storytelling and has been writing for as long as she can remember. Yrsa also co-wrote Black Is King, Beyonce''s musical film and visual album. She splits her time between Los Angeles and New York. Her popular Substack newsletter ''The Utter'' goes out to tens of thousands of subscribers weekly.>
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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 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 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 'Sharing is her form of survival ... 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' i-D Magazine
