The first third of the book is under the heading "Aneephya," a word he coined and defines as "the stress toxin of inherited trauma" - from slave ships to police checks. Yomi Ṣode’s debut collection Manorism explores family, survival, generational trauma and the complexities of belonging – it is an examination of the lives of Black British men and boys.

The violence of artists such as Caravaggio in seventeenth-century Rome and modern-day commentary by the likes of David Starkey and Piers Morgan provide a lens for considering differences of impunity afforded to white and Black people. But rather than railing angrily, Yomi asserts himself and his kinship to have the right to speak and live according to their cultures and traditions. I didn't expect to also feel challenged, validated, riled up, soothed, seen and understood to the level that I was.i could not recommend this more, i recommend this to even people like me who usually don’t read poetry. His debut collection Manorism, published by Penguin in October 2022 alongside a stage adaptation at the Southbank Centre, was shortlisted for the Rathbones Folio Prize 2023 and the T S Eliot Prize 2022. Snippets of Yoruba interweave with English, and a moving final sequence, part poetry, part play, charts the dramatic reconciliations surrounding a death in the family.

But then the focus shifts and we are seeing Caravaggio and his dispute with a waiter in another time over a plate of artichokes. another is "Manorism II: A Thanos Theory" ; wherein he says "Mocking a movement because its's not his problem. ode takes us on a visceral journey, spilling secrets nakedly, not allowing us to look away from the hard truth. We don’t share your credit card details with third-party sellers, and we don’t sell your information to others.When I speak of justice and anger written with luminous genius, I will forever be speaking of Yomi Sode's Manorism, a glorious, furious collection that tells a thousand stories in stunningly crafted verse.