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Warsan Shire FRSL (Born 1 August 1988) is a British writer, poet, editor and teacher, who was born to Somali parents in Kenya. 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. [2]
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.
Oct 21, 2015 · Of this new genre of poets, Warsan Shire, a twenty-six-year-old Somali-British woman, is a laureate. Shire was the actual Young Poet Laureate of London in 2014, the city’s first.
Nov 20, 2023 · Warsan Shire was born in Kenya to Somali parents and lives in London. She is a poet, writer, editor and teacher. In 2013-2014, she was the Young Poet Laureate for London.
Warsan Shire’s poetry does its own thing; it is entirely her own voice—unflinching and sometimes shocking, yet also exquisitely beautiful, stunningly imaginative, imagistic, memorable—always deeply felt and eminently rereadable. Here is a poet who explores how the victims of civil war can end up as refugees in the sometimes
Warsan Shire was born in Kenya in 1988 and is a London-based Somali-British writer. She is the author of the collections Teaching My Mother How to Give Birth (flipped eye, 2011), Her Blue Body (flipped eye, 2015), and Our Men Do Not Belong to Us (Slapering Hol Press and Poetry Foundation, 2015).
Warsan Shire is a Kenyan-born Somali poet and writer who is based in London.
Feb 7, 2022 · On a wet day in London, around 2013, the poet Warsan Shire turned on a voice recorder as her uncle talked about his youth in Somalia, his life as a refugee, and his addiction to the bitter-leaf...
Mar 15, 2022 · In 2015, at the height of the Syrian refugee crisis, a poem by the young Somali-British poet Warsan Shire made waves on social media.
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...
