![]() ![]() ![]() She regularly draws on Islamic and African terminology as powerfully as Britney Spears references (‘My Loneliness Is Killing Me’). Drawing on her faith, femininity and the disconcerting rise of far right rhetoric towards refugees in the last decade, she’s one of those poets who manages to use popular culture as a subtle, blink-and-you’ll-miss-it weapon. ![]() It’s fairly safe to say that at this point, she’s already left an indelible mark of cross-cultural import.īless The Daughter By A Voice Raised In Her Head is a paean to lonsomeness, inner strength and a genuinely gorgeous cultural melting pot. I first came across her years ago as part of the Penguin Modern Poets series of compilations, but since then – and all before the age of 33 – she’s won the Brunel International African Poetry Prize, served as the first Young Poet Laureate of London and collaborated not once, but twice with Beyonce. Given how accomplished she is, it’s kind of remarkable that this is Somali-British (and now LA-based) writer Warsan Shire’s debut poetry collection proper. ![]() The debut full-length collection from this modern poetic legend is a powerful, wide-reaching and culturally gorgeous meditation on cathartic femininity ![]()
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