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Warsan Shire

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. She is the youngest member of the Royal Society of Literature and is included in the Penguin Modern Poets series. Shire wrote the poetry for the Peabody Award–winning visual album Lemonade and the Disney film Black Is King in collaboration with Beyoncé Knowles-Carter. She also wrote the short film Brave Girl Rising, highlighting the voices and faces of Somali girls in Africa’s largest refugee camp. Warsan Shire lives in Los Angeles with her husband and two children. Bless the Daughter Raised by a Voice in Her Head is her full-length debut poetry collection.
Bless the Daughter Raised by a Voice in Her Head
Bless the Daughter Raised by a Voice in Her Head
Poems
Warsan Shire
9780593134351
$17.00 US
Paperback
Mar 01, 2022
Random House Trade Paperbacks
Grades 9-12 + AP/IB

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Bless the Daughter Raised by a Voice in Her Head
Bless the Daughter Raised by a Voice in Her Head
Poems
Warsan Shire
9780593134351
$17.00 US
Paperback
Mar 01, 2022
Random House Trade Paperbacks
Grades 9-12 + AP/IB

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