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 is a Somali-British poet. She is the author of two
poetry pamphlets, Teaching My Mother How To Give Birth (2011) and
Her Blue Body (2015). In 2014 she was appointed as the inaugural
Young Poet Laureate of London. In 2016 she collaborated on the film
adaptation and poetry for Beyonce Knowles-Carter's visual album
Lemonade. She is currently working on her first full collection of
poetry.
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