Manorism

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This collection is deeply insightful while still demonstrating the skill to read like a one on one conversation with Yomi himself.

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 _ga cookie, installed by Google Analytics, calculates visitor, session and campaign data and also keeps track of site usage for the site's analytics report. The contrast with Caravaggio was powerful- to think of the chances that whites people are given, even when they do wrong, the constant meting out of the benefit of the doubt. Yomi really put so much soul into this and I loved the exploration into black British masculinity, childhood, friendship, family, the way we carry ourselves in society and the realisation that he deserves so much more than the limited way he's been made to experience this life. 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?

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. I agree with another reviewer, who mentioned that Sode's poetry perhaps works more effectively as oral performance. Why does the fear that the white man harbour in his heart, lead to the death or oppression of the Black man?In poems exploring family, survival, generational trauma and the complexities of belonging, Manorism is an examination of the lives of Black British men and boys. 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.

Hotjar sets this cookie to know whether a user is included in the data sampling defined by the site's daily session limit. Snippets of Yoruba interweave with English, and a moving final sequence, part poetry, part play, charts the dramatic reconciliations surrounding a death in the family. Yomi Sode is a talent and an absolute wave in this century’s poets, you have to give this collection a read for yourself! Is it our fault or theirs that in confrontation they feel less empire, more artifact - less demigod and more a future meme?

It is more deep and meaningful and touches more important subjects and I think you need to have a bit of experience with poetry to understand some of its experiences. I read about myself and my people, felt an affinity in the expression of experiences we share and felt feelings only we feel. another is "Manorism II: A Thanos Theory" ; wherein he says "Mocking a movement because its's not his problem. 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.