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Poems of migration, womanhood, trauma and resilience from the award-winning Somali British poet Warsan Shire, celebrated collaborator on Beyoncé's Lemonade and Black Is King.

With her first full-length poetry collection, Warsan Shire introduces us to a girl who, in the absence of a nurturing guide, makes her own stumbling way towards womanhood. 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. These are noisy lives, full of music and weeping and surahs. These are fragrant lives, full of blood and perfume and jasmine. These are polychrome lives, full of moonlight and turmeric and kohl.

The long-awaited collection from one of our most exciting contemporary poets is a blessing, an incantatory celebration of survival. Every listener will come away changed.

©2022 Warsan Shire (P)2022 Penguin Audio African Death, Grief & Loss European Poetry Themes & Styles World Literature Resilience Africa
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I love Warsan Shire and her ability to write poems that are instantly relatable and resonant with real life lived experiences.
What an inspiring book of poetry narrated by Warsan Shire herself. Utterly wonderful.

Excellent, touching short poems about lived experiences.

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I could listen to this on repeat. I wish it included more from her collection so I don't have to rematch videos on YouTube but it's still a masterpiece

Greatest poet in the world.

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