Manorism

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But rather than railing angrily, Yomi asserts himself and his kinship to have the right to speak and live according to their cultures and traditions.

It's moving, conpelling and 'pleasurable' in the sense that all good poetry is - it expresses something ineffable with beauty, poignancy, humour, and style. 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.

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.

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. Some of my favourite poems are "PC Joshua Savage Pulls Leon Fontana Over for a Routine Check" ; wherein he says "What is there to teach white men who do not feel their power?

The violence of artists such as Caravaggio in seventeenth-century Rome and modern-day commentary by the likes of David Starkey and Piers Morgan provide a lens for considering differences of impunity afforded to white and Black people. For lovers of poetry, I think this collection will speak volumes to you, and for those of you, much like myself who are not the keenest of poetry readers/lovers, maybe give it a try and let me know your thoughts. Manorism is a powerful exploration of the stark contrast between the reception of black culture from the black community versus appropriated black culture from the white community. These cookies help provide information on metrics the number of visitors, bounce rate, traffic source, etc.

A remarkable, textured education in what it means to be made up of different parts, of light and dark places, and of worlds that we know, and that we don't . Alongside this political public poetry, is the series of grieving and mourning poems: emotive pieces on the mothers who learn that their young Black sons have been killed in police custody, and the narrator's own over-spilling feelings at the death of Big Mummy, made even more potent by the cultural prohibitions on Black men who cry. I think one day, Yomi Sode's Manorism will be required reading for a generation of young Black men . Yomi Sode's debut articulates the most subtle nuances of Black British Masculinity with a breathtaking vulnerability.

We come across celebrities both popular (Stormzy, Tinie Tempah), the redeemed (Ant McPartlin) and the unpopular (David Starkey, Laurence Fox). 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. this collection covers a really wide range of topics including black masculinity, friendship, coming of age, family, class, music and the news.