this collection covers a really wide range of topics including black masculinity, friendship, coming of age, family, class, music and the news. To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average. Like Surge or Poor (or what little I read of Citizen), this is a collection driven by outrage and longing for justice for Black people. this collection is really brilliant, and i think so especially having seen sode perform parts of it aloud. 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 prose poetry was not quite as strong as the rest of the poetry, it didn’t seem to have the same flow for me. The book is about families, society, being Black in Britain, being a cousin, a nephew, a son and the hope for the future that being a father brings. Yomi's acclaimed one-man show COAT toured nationally to sold-out audiences, including at the Brighton Festival, Roundhouse Camden and the Battersea Arts Centre.Yomi Sode sets out to educate those like myself who never knew about this injustice and make the reader ask questions that many of society's members may be too uncomfortable to ask. They are full of British/London slang and references that many people may find unfamiliar and struggle to understand at first, however this is what makes them come across as more raw and relatable. It doesn't require the extended textual attention that the poetry of, say, Derek Walcott requires with its complex multilayered allusions and intertexts, metaphors and puns and wordplay with switching modes of prosody. Yomi Sode provides us with commentary on white privilege, gang dynamics, grief and masculinity, driven by anger and longing for justice for Black people. brand new poetry from Yọ̀mí Ṣódé, examining the lives of black british men and boys; contemporary masculinity deepened by family, misinterpreted by media, and complicated by the riches, and the costs, of belonging and inheritance.

Hotjar sets this cookie to know whether a user is included in the data sampling defined by the site's daily session limit. the poetry really conveys meaningful and personal experiences and explores themes of racism and black history really well. When I speak of justice and anger written with luminous genius, I will forever be speaking of Yomi Sode's Manorism, a glorious, furious collection that tells a thousand stories in stunningly crafted verse.

He takes us along as he comments, empathises, reflects, mourns and ponders black male adolescence and manhood.