![]() ![]() ![]() 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. Born in 1988, she is an artist and activist who uses her work to document narratives of journey and trauma. Warsan reads like a fierce sister, one with whom you can share in the frailties of your family, beginning with your parents, and the grandparents who used to be as young as you are now. Warsan Shire is a Kenyan-born Somali poet and writer who is based in London. A dying grandfather who remembers the names of every man he has ever killed will still wrench out your heart when he wants to be buried at home. As Rumi said, Love will find its way through all languages on its own in 'teaching my mother how to give birth', Warsan's debut pamphlet, we witness the unearthing of a poet who finds her way through all preconceptions to strike the heart directly. 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. ![]()
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