Warsan Shire is a Somali-British writer and poet born in Nairobi
and raised in London. She has written two chapbooks, Teaching My
Mother How To Give Birth and Her Blue Body. She was awarded the
inaugural Brunel International African Poetry Prize and served as
the first Young Poet Laureate of London.
Shire wrote the poetry for the Peabody Award-winning visual album
Lemonade and Disney film Black Is King in collaboration with
Beyonce Knowles-Carter. She also wrote the short film Brave Girl
Rising highlighting the voices and faces of Somali girls in
Africa's largest refugee camp.
Warsan lives in Los Angeles with her husband and two children.
Bless the Daughter Raised by a Voice in Her Head is her first full
collection.
I have long been a massive fan of Warsan Shire's extraordinarily
gifted poetry. Her exquisite, memorable and finely-tuned poems
articulate a depth of experience that never fails to surprise and
profoundly move me, as she so powerfully gives voice to the
unspoken
*Bernardine Evaristo*
An incredible collection
*Stylist*
Shire invokes the creative powers of the writer to transform one's
past... Vital, moving and courageous, this is a debut not to be
missed
*'The best recent poetry' - Guardian*
It is absolutely astonishing how much emotion, intelligence,
imagination, and truth Warsan Shire can get into one collection.
She is a poet of the highest order, with a compassionate heart, and
a limitless mind
*Benjamin Zephaniah*
Must-read poetry from the superstar Somali-British writer Warsan
Shire
*Stylist*
Warsan Shire... explores trauma, womanhood and migration so
magnificently that even Beyoncé has quoted her
*Harper's Bazaar*
I read Warsan Shire's eagerly awaited debut poetry collection,
Bless the Daughter Raised By a Voice in Her Head, greedily, in one
giant gulp. It surpassed my expectations, and shortly after I
turned the final page of this collection, I wanted more
*Guardian*
Shire's strikingly beautiful imagery leverages the specificity of
her own womanhood, love life, tussles with mental health, grief,
family history, and stories from the Somali diaspora, to make them
reverberate universally... Enthralling... The poetry in Bless the
Daughter soothes, even while it picks at the scabs of the wounds
that cause trauma
*Daily Telegraph*
Powerful metaphors characterise Warsan Shire's Bless the Daughter
Raised By a Voice in Her Head, a book of blessings, of ecstasy
through trauma, in particular the trauma of the refugee
*Irish Times*
Poetry is a sure-fire way to change your mental landscape and this
long-awaited collection from the Somali-British poet/Beyoncé
collaborator combines poems about war and migration with
celebrations of joy
*'60 ways to turn your world upside down' - Guardian*
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