Warsan Shire
Author

Poems

Our Blue Bodies english

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Souvenir english

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The Ugly Daughter english

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Midnight in the Foreign Food Aisle english

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Nail Technician as Palm Reader english

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Her Blue Body Full of Light english

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The House english

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Conversations About Home (at the Deportation Centre) english

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Backwards english

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Warsan Shire
Author

About

* 01.08.1988, 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. She won her first prize at an international slam event and is now the editor of the magazines Literary arts mashup and Spook. She leads workshops, in which poetry is used as a tool to try to overcome personal traumas.

Her poems have been published and featured in various literary publications, such as the Poetry Review, Magma and Wasafiri as well as have been featured in the collections Book of Younger Poets (Salt, 2011) and Ten: The New Wave (Bloodaxe, 2014). Poems of her have been translated into Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Swedish, Danish and Estonian etc.