Ordinary Beast by Nicole Sealey Sean Street and each poem unfolds like

and each poem unfolds like a bat through the wild meaninglessness of the world

with remarkable music and clarity

Written while working as Dundee’s first Makar (official laureate) from 2013-18

This is a story about a man executed by the state for saying things they didn’t want to hear

Ordinary Beast by Nicole Sealey Sean Street and each poem unfolds like"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