Ordinary Beast by Nicole Sealey Ly Seppel in a search for new/old

in a search for new/old ways of speaking

the last 50 years

grim detail that wakes us up

Published 24th September 2020

Ordinary Beast by Nicole Sealey Ly Seppel in a search for new/old"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