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Ilona Yusuf
Ilona Yusuf has been writing for most of her life and collection indicates the ease with which verse flows from her pen. Never studied, her poetry exudes a stripped down simplicity and an intrinsic honesty, stemming perhaps from the way she uses familiar experiences and everyday occurences in a determinedly personal manner. Ilona writes in compact images. Her thoughts, though allencompassing, are nevertheless contained and this element of self-restraint gives great strength to her thoughts and therefore to her verse. Interested in the redeeming features fo love, her verse is strong yet tender and she is not subdued by grief or despair. Instead she emanates an acceptance - sometimes whimsical, sometimes serious- of the vagaries of life and love. Her demands of relationships are rendered with a universal and contemporary resonance that, whilst remining deeply personal, is unuually compelling and moving.
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