Debut poetry collection · 2023
A Medley of Poetic Collections
Rooted in observation and quiet intensity, the poems reflect on identity, change, and the tension between holding on and letting go. Nature appears often, as part of how she moves through the world and slows down to pay attention.
About the collection
This debut collection moves through identity, love, loss, and the natural world. The poems trust the reader to bring their own weight to each page rather than explaining themselves.
Joy-Jayne Bassey writes with the discipline of a painter, attending to image and texture before meaning, letting the feeling of a thing carry the reader into its significance. The subjects shift from poem to poem, but the voice underneath them stays recognizably hers throughout.
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