Notes On The Great Work Of Meeting Yourself, with Yrsa Daley Ward
Channel: British Library
Date: 2022-03-14

Poet and writer Yrsa Daley-Ward's words have resonated with hundreds of thousands of readers around the world: through her books of poetry and memoirs, through her powerful writing for Beyonce on Black Is King and through her always-illuminating Instagram posts. She recently wrote and read a new poem to introduce the COP26 summit.

Re-imagine your new year with Yrsa as she introduces her new book The How; an inspirational mix of poetry, meditations and heartfelt advice, and a lyrical call to discover your inner creativity. She explores how we can remove our filters, and see and feel more of who we really are behind the preconceived notions of propriety and manners we've accumulated with age.

Yrsa is in conversation with fellow poet Nikita Gill

Yrsa Daley-Ward is a writer and poet of mixed Jamaican and Nigerian heritage and is the author of The How, bone, and The Terrible, the winner of the PEN Ackerley Prize. She splits her time between Brooklyn and London.

Nikita Gill is a British-Indian poet and who has written and curated six volumes of poetry. Your Soul Is A River (2016), Wild Embers: Poems of rebellion, fire and beauty (2017), Fierce Fairytales: & Other Stories to Stir Your Soul (2018), Great Goddesses: Life lessons from myths and monsters (2019), Your Heart Is The Sea (2019), and The Girl and the Goddess (2020). Her latest curated collection Slam was shortlisted for the CLiPPA 2021