But I do imagine them in their most intimate settings." Her main interest is writing about and for people who are generally not heard otherwise, e.g. She is quoted as saying: "I either know, or I am, every person I have written about, for or as. Shire uses not only her own personal experiences but also the experiences of people to whom she is close. Shire was interviewed on NPR's Weekend Edition Sunday by Sarah McCammon on 27 February 2022 to discuss her new book.
Shire published Bless the Daughter Raised by a Voice in Her Head: Poems on 1 March 2022. Knowles-Carter's interest in using Shire's work was sparked with Shire's piece "For Women Who Are Difficult to Love". Shire's poetry featured prominently in Beyoncé's 2016 feature-length film Lemonade. She serves as the poetry editor at SPOOK magazine and she teaches poetry workshops both globally and online for cathartic and aesthetic purposes. Īs of 2016, Shire is working on her first full-length poetry collection, having put out a limited-release pamphlet called Her Blue Body in 2015. Her poetry has also been translated into a number of languages, including Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Swedish, Danish and Estonian. Additionally, Shire's verse has been featured in the collections Salt Book of Younger Poets ( Salt, 2011), Ten: The New Wave ( Bloodaxe, 2014), and New Daughters of Africa (edited by Margaret Busby, 2019). Her poems have been published in various literary publications, including Poetry Review, Magma and Wasafiri. Shire has read her poetry in various artistic venues throughout the world, including in the United Kingdom, Italy, Germany, North America, South Africa and Kenya.
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Her full collection was released in 2016, also through flipped eye.
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In 2011, she released Teaching My Mother How To Give Birth, a poetry pamphlet published by flipped eye. As of 2015, she primarily resides in Los Angeles, California. She has a Bachelor of Arts degree in Creative Writing. Life and career īorn on 1 August 1988 in Kenya to Somali parents, Shire migrated with her family to the United Kingdom at the age of one. Her words "No one leaves home unless/home is the mouth of a shark", from the poem "Conversations about Home (at a deportation centre)", have been called "a rallying call for refugees and their advocates".
In 2013 she was awarded the inaugural Brunel University African Poetry Prize, chosen from a shortlist of six candidates out of a total 655 entries. Warsan Shire FRSL (born 1 August 1988) is a British writer, poet, editor and teacher, who was born to Somali parents in Kenya. Teaching My Mother How To Give Birth (2011) Bless the Daughter Raised by a Voice in Her Head: Poems (2022)īrunel University African Poetry Prize Young Poet Laureate for London
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