Moving and unflinchingly honest poems from three different cultures about experiences of the female body, the family, sexual politics and conflict
Malika Booker (Author)
Malika Booker is a British writer of Guyanese and Grenadian
parentage. Her pamphlet, Breadfruit, was published by
flipped eye in 2007, and her Seamus Heaney Centre for Poetry
Prize-winning collection, Pepper Seed, followed in 2013 from
Peepal Tree. She has written for the stage and radio. She was the
first Poet in Residence at the Royal Shakespeare Company.
Sharon Olds (Author)
Sharon Olds was born in San Francisco. She was the New York State
Poet Laureate from 1998 to 2000 and currently teaches at New York
University. She has been involved with outreach writing workshops
at hospitals for the physically challenged and for veterans of Iraq
and Afghanistan. Her last collection, Stag's Leap, won the
T.S. Eliot Prize and the 2013 Pulitzer Prize.
Warsan Shire (Author)
Warsan Shire was born in Kenya to Somali parents and raised in
London. Her pamphlets are Teaching My Mother How To Give
Birth (2011) and Her Blue Body (2015); her first
collection, Extreme Girlhood, is forthcoming in late 2016.
In 2013, she became the first Young Poet Laureate for London. In
2016, she provided the poetry and film adaptation for Beyonce's
visual album Lemonade.
Contemporary poetry has been given a shot in the arm by the
relaunch of Penguin Modern Poets ... deep and funny, and sometimes
both at once -- Nicholas Lezard * Guardian *
Electric ... Penguin Modern Poets were the most exciting thing in
poetry this year -- Jeremy Noel-Tod * Sunday Times *
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