{"title":"Warsan Shire","description":"","products":[{"product_id":"bless-the-daughter-raised-by-a-voice-in-her-head-poems","title":"Bless the Daughter Raised by a Voice in Her Head: Poems","description":"\u003cb\u003ePoems of migration, womanhood, trauma, and resilience from the celebrated collaborator on Beyoncé's \u003ci\u003eLemonade \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eBlack Is King, \u003c\/i\u003eaward-winning Somali British poet Warsan Shire\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"The beautifully crafted poems in this collection are fiercely tender gifts.\"--Roxane Gay, author of \u003ci\u003eBad Feminist\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"Warsan Shire is our ultimate modern poet. . . . 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This is fragrant life, full of blood and perfume and shisha smoke and jasmine and incense. This is polychrome life, full of henna and moonlight and lipstick and turmeric and kohl. The long-awaited collection from one of our most exciting contemporary poets, this book is a blessing, an incantatory celebration of resilience and survival. Each reader will come away changed.","brand":"Warsan Shire","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43793318084650,"sku":"9780593134351","price":17.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0690\/0891\/6522\/files\/bless-the-daughter-raised-by-a-voice-in-her-head-poems-8226690.jpg?v=1762150882"},{"product_id":"teaching-my-mother-how-to-give-birth","title":"Teaching My Mother How to Give Birth","description":"What elevates 'teaching my mother how to give birth', what gives the poems their disturbing brilliance, is Warsan Shire's ability to give simple, beautiful eloquence to the veiled world where sensuality lives in the dominant narrative of Islam; reclaiming the more nuanced truths of earlier times - as in Tayeb Salih's work - and translating to the realm of lyric the work of the likes of Nawal El Saadawi. As Rumi said, \"Love will find its way through all languages on its own\"; in 'teaching my mother how to give birth', Warsan's début pamphlet, we witness the unearthing of a poet who finds her way through all preconceptions to strike the heart directly. Warsan Shire is a Kenyan-born Somali poet and writer who is based in London. Born in 1988, she is an artist and activist who uses her work to document narratives of journey and trauma. Warsan has read her work internationally, including recent readings in South Africa, Italy and Germany, and her poetry has been translated into Italian, Spanish and Portuguese.","brand":"Warsan Shire","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43793318248490,"sku":"9781905233298","price":7.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0690\/0891\/6522\/files\/teaching-my-mother-how-to-give-birth-2975770.jpg?v=1762150882"},{"product_id":"mouthmark-book-of-poetry","title":"Mouthmark Book of Poetry","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 'The mouthmark Book of Poetry' is an anthology of the individual-author titles published under the mouthmark poetry pamphlet series, comprising the work of Nick Makoha, Inua Ellams, Jacob Sam-La Rose, Jessica Horn, Truth Thomas, Denise Saul, Malika Booker, Janett Plummer and Warsan Shire. The series was conceived by flipped eye publishing's senior editor, Nii Ayikwei Parkes, as a means to get poets from non-mainstream backgrounds - including performance - into print. It was revolutionary for two reasons; first, it was a pamphlet series developed with a specific aim (later, tall-lighthouse would launch its pilot series, and, much later, Faber would launch its New Poets Initiative); second, it was a finite series - to end after ten pamphlets. After some success with the first two pamphlets in the series, Nick Makoha's 'The Lost Collection of an Invisible Man' (2005) and Inua Ellams' '13 Fairy Negro Tales' (2005), the Arts Council of England provided funding for the next four. It took six years for the series to be completed, but its impact far exceeded expectations. Authors such as Inua Ellams, Jacob Sam-La Rose (later editor of the last pamphlet in the series), Malika Booker, Nick Makoha and Warsan Shire, have risen to international prominence; three of the pamphlets were cited by the Poetry Book Society pamphlet selectors for their quality; two of the poets feature in the new Penguin Modern Poets series; and Truth Thomas's from his pamphlet 'Party of Black' (2006) was chosen for Nikki Giovanni's 'The 100 Best African American Poems' (Sourcebooks, 2010). Crucially, the series has retailed admirably as well, with over 50,000 copies sold at events - and through conventional retail channels. 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