10% off all books and free delivery over £40
Buy from our bookstore and 25% of the cover price will be given to a school of your choice to buy more books. *15% of eBooks.

Somehow, Somehow

"An intensely personal reflection on an experience that’s shaped us all."

View All Editions (1)

£7.99 £7.19

In Stock. Same day dispatch on orders before 3pm.

Add To Wishlist
Write A Review Read An Extract

LoveReading4Kids Says

LoveReading4Kids Says

In the final poem in this intensely personal collection, entitled Post-Pandemic, are the lines, ‘Things are supposed to be normal now. / We are supposed to be normal now.’ They’re striking in their simplicity and the way they underline the abnormality of the pandemic and its continuing impact on every one of us.

Nyanda Foday’s experience of those years of lockdown and isolation was particularly hard; alone at university, separated from her family, struggling with her mental health. Her poetry captures the anguish, fear and loneliness of her situation, her struggles to keep in control.

There’s a power to the poems driven by their raw honesty; a potent emphasis on physicality in poems such as Self-Soothing and Body. The poems will affect readers too because we all went through this, and though our experiences were maybe easier, this chance to reflect, consider and process what happened is important and weighted with meaning.

Andrea Reece

Find This Book In

Suitable For:
Other Genres:

About

Press Reviews

Author

Collections Featuring This Book

You Might Also Like...

YA readers

These Are the Words

Nikita Gill

Paperback

In Stock

£7.19 £7.99

YA readers

Punching the Air

Ibi Zoboi and 1 more

Paperback

In Stock

£8.09 £8.99

YA readers

Solo

Kwame Alexander and 1 more

Paperback

In Stock

£8.09 £8.99

YA readers

Somebody Give This Heart a Pen

Sophia Thakur

Paperback

In Stock

£7.19 £7.99

YA readers

Moonrise

Sarah Crossan

Paperback

In Stock

£7.19 £7.99

YA readers

Milk and Honey

Rupi Kaur

Paperback

In Stock

£11.69 £12.99