Ordinary Beast by Nicole Sealey Ly Seppel This is a book where

This is a book where a tender and sabotaging shame of aloneness has taken root

When he cries

Published 24th September 2020

the last 50 years

grim detail that wakes us up

Ordinary Beast by Nicole Sealey Ly Seppel This is a book where"In this brilliant debut, clarity is ushered through form, strutting its way into life, into our lives." Claudia Rankine"The sorceress Sealey serves up an impossible cento that punches the daylight from your chest. Nothing ordinary here. But beast? Yeah, that's it. This thing has teeth." Patricia Smith A poet of existential magnitude, deep intellect, and playful subversion, St. Thomas born, Florida raised Nicole Sealey writes poems that are restless