Presented in partnership with Centre for New Writing, Creative Manchester and Waterstones Deansgate.Ĭopies of Bless the Daughter Raised by a Voice in Her Head will be available to collect before the event. Her poetry collection Pepper Seed was shortlisted for the OCM Botas Prize and her poem The Little Miracles won the 2020 Forward Prize for Best Single Poem Seven New Generation African Poets: A Chapbook boxed set 1940646588 Book Cover. The founder of Malika's Poetry Kitchen, Malika is a British poet and theatre-maker of Guyanese and Grenadian parentage. See all books authored by Warsan Shire, including Bless the Daughter. Warsan Shire is a Somali British writer and poet born in Nairobi and raised in London. Join us to see Warsan discuss her work and perform some of her fierce and tender poems. Beautifully crafted and profoundly moving, it's a collection that explores home and exile, migration and assimilation, faith and family alongside love, desire, trauma and womanhood. One of the most exciting poets of her generation, Warsan builds on the power of individual poems like 'Home' and 'For Women Who Are Difficult to Love' with her first full-length collection, Bless the Daughter Raised by A Voice in Her Head.
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She has written two chapbooks, Teaching My Mother How To Give Birth and Her Blue Body, and wrote the poetry for the award-winning visual album Lemonade and the Disney film Black is King in collaboration with Beyoncé Knowles-Carter. du Perronprijs.Manchester Literature Festival is thrilled to present an evening with Somali-British poet and writer Warsan Shire.īorn in Nairobi and raised in London, Warsan was awarded the Brunel International African Poetry Prize and served as the first Young Poet Laureate of London. Her highly lauded debut, Godface (2019), was nominated for the Herman de Coninckprijs, De Grote Poëzieprijs and E. She won second place at the National Poetry Slam championship 2018, having competed as an ‘anti-performance’ performer.
She has translated works by Gail Jones, Kofi Awoonor and Warsan Shire, among others.Īsha Karami is a poet, a doctor who works in youth health care and a ringside physician at martial arts tournaments. In 2014 she won the prestigious Prix Baudelaire. She is interested in authors from West Africa, the US and the Caribbean. She studied translation and publishing, and she works as an independent translator. weallbelong poetry neighbor2neighborsb Bethany Joy Showalter and 5 others 6 3. Home, by Warsan Shire (British-Somali poet) no one leaves home unless. 1976) grew up in Ouidah and Cotonou, in Benin. Besides Warsan Shire, Fabias has translated poetry by Nobel Prize-winner Louise Glück. Habitus has been translated into French, Spanish, Arabic and German. De Volkskrant proclaimed her the literary talent of 2019. Buddingh’-prijs, the Awater Poëzieprijs, the Herman de Coninckprijs and the Grote Poëzieprijs. She made her debut as a poet with the collection Habitus, which was awarded the C. Today her debut collection, Bless the Daughter Raised by a Voice in Her Head, has finally been released. In 2016 her poetry featured prominently in Beyoncé’s Lemonade film, reaching millions of new fans. She has published several poetry pamphlets and has been translated into Italian, Spanish and Portuguese. She became London’s first ever Young People’s Poet Laureate, was awarded the African Poetry Prize and was the youngest person ever to be appointed fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.
Her poems about migration, being at home somewhere and searching for a home were published online and made a deep impression. I was wandering the derelict car park of your heart looking for a ride home. You hate women, just like your father and his father, so it runs in your blood. 1988) was born in Kenya to Somali parents and migrated to England at the age of 1. Excuses For Why We Failed At Love by Warsan Shire I’m lonely so I do lonely things Loving you was like going to war I never came back the same.
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