Manorism

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Is it our fault or theirs that in confrontation they feel less empire, more artifact - less demigod and more a future meme?

though some of the prose poetry didn’t capture me as much as the rest of the poetry did, i think this is a really wonderful poetry collection that deserves its praise. 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. Fierce, angry abrasive poems about colonialism, race and the black experience in Britain, interlaced with thoughts on Caravaggio and an extended and gorgeously personal musing on death, this is, at times hard reading. I agree with another reviewer, who mentioned that Sode's poetry perhaps works more effectively as oral performance. But rather than drifting off into a netherworld, he knows when to skilfully shift gear and to land us right back into the reality of young black men in England in the 21st Century.

I was sent this out of the blue by some lovely marketer at Penguin Books and thank you whoever that marketer was as I loved this collection of poetry/works by Yomi Ṣodi. Sode quotes from news stories: Stormzy, David Starkey's abusive genocide remark, Dominic Raab's ignorant comment on taking the knee, the unforgivable abuse of Bukayo Saka after the World Cup.

Sode talks about a number of topics, from black Britishness to masculinity, community and popular culture.Why is it that a famous white artist is now celebrated, but if a man or woman of another race was to commit those same crimes, they would be remembered in bad light and their actions would be constantly talked about by society? 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. He speaks not only to the moments we might falter in the face of our mourning but also to how we might rebuild, how we might not only survive those who pass, but thrive. Hotjar sets this cookie to know whether a user is included in the data sampling defined by the site's daily session limit.