Author: Yrsa Daley-Ward

  • Bone

    Bone

    ‘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.

  • The Terrible

    The Terrible

    ‘You may not run away from the thing that you are because it comes and comes and comes as sure as you breathe.’ This is the story of Yrsa Daley-Ward, and all the things that happened – ‘even the Terrible Things (and God, there were Terrible Things)’. It’s about her childhood in the north-west of…

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