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 themes of identity, love, loss, and the natural world with a voice that is both personal and universally resonant. The poems trust the reader to bring their own weight to each page.
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 collection is medley in the truest sense: different tones, different subjects, one continuous voice.
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