The long-awaited collection from one of our most exciting contemporary poets, this book is a blessing, an incantatory celebration of resilience and survival. Enjoy the full SoundCloud experience in the app. Whats it like living in a culture dominated by poetry Is the Somali diaspora reshaping ancient. The lines, the forms, the people at the desks, the calling cards, the immigration officer, the looks. Acclaimed poet Warsan Shire explores a thriving world of Somali poetry. This is polychrome life: full of henna and moonlight and lipstick and turmeric and kohl. Listen to 507 Home by Warsan Shire, read by Amanda Abbington by Samuel. I watch the news and my mouth becomes a sink full of blood. This is fragrant life: full of blood and perfume and shisha smoke and jasmine and incense. The lines no one leaves home unless/ home is the mouth of a shark that made us rethink the global refugee crisis, appear in Somali-British poet Warsan Shire’s poem ‘Home.’. She won her first prize at an international slam event and is now the editor of the magazines Literary arts mashup and Spook. This is noisy life: full of music and weeping and surahs and sirens and birds. , Nairobi, Kenya lives in: London, United Kingdom Warsan Shire was born in 1988 in Kenya to Somali parents, she grew up in London, where she still lives. In Shire's hands, lives spring into fullness. Home.A poem by Warsan Shire no one leaves home unless home is the mouth of a shark you only run for the border when you see the whole city running as. Drawing from her own life and the lives of loved ones, as well as pop culture and news headlines, Shire finds vivid, unique details in the experiences of refugees and immigrants, mothers and daughters, Black women, and teenage girls. With her first full-length poetry collection, Warsan Shire introduces us to a young girl, who, in the absence of a nurturing guide, makes her own stumbling way towards womanhood. Poems of migration, womanhood, trauma, and resilience from the celebrated collaborator on Beyoncé's Lemonade and Black Is King, award-winning Somali British poet Warsan Shire.
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