Warsan Shire Livres

Through her role as London's first Young Poet Laureate, Warsan Shire turned her eye to the city, interrogating the capital and its continuing transformation, even while lending voice to its oft unheard or under-represented communities and spaces. Collecting work authored during Shire's tenure, 'Her Blue Body' stands as testament and witness, negotiating the complexities of heritage, cultural sensitivity, sensuality, trauma and womanhood, framed and ordered by a sequence of memorial poems, focused through the lens of Shire's intimate and unflinching vision.

What elevates 'teaching my mother how to give birth', 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, translating to the realm of lyric the work of the likes of Nawal El Saadawi.

Poems of migration, womanhood, trauma, and resilience from the celebrated collaborator on Beyoncé’s Lemonade and Black Is King, award-winning Somali British poet Warsan Shire “The beautifully crafted poems in this collection are fiercely tender gifts.”—Roxane Gay, author of Bad Feminist “Shire is the real thing—fresh, cutting, indisputably alive.”—Dwight Garner, The New York Times Mama, I made it / out of your home / alive, raised by / the voices / in my head. With her first full-length poetry collection, Warsan Shire introduces us to a young girl, who, in the absence of a nurturing guide, makes her own way toward womanhood. Drawing from her own life, as well as pop culture and news headlines, Shire finds vivid, unique details in the experiences of refugees and immigrants, mothers and daughters, Black women and teenage girls. In Shire’s hands, lives spring into fullness. This is noisy life, full of music and weeping and surahs and sirens and birds. This is fragrant life, full of blood and perfume and shisha smoke and jasmine and incense. This is polychrome life, full of henna and moonlight and lipstick and turmeric and kohl. The long-awaited collection from one of our most exciting contemporary poets, this book is a blessing, an incantatory celebration of resilience and survival. Each reader will come away changed.

Featuring a diverse array of voices, this anthology showcases the work of nine poets from the innovative mouthmark poetry pamphlet series, aimed at elevating non-mainstream talent. Conceived by Nii Ayikwei Parkes, the series was groundbreaking for its focused approach and finite nature, culminating in ten unique pamphlets. With contributions from acclaimed poets like Warsan Shire and Inua Ellams, the anthology highlights their rise to prominence and the series' lasting impact on contemporary poetry. This paperback edition invites new readers to explore their powerful works.

New poems by Steve Ely, Zaffar Kunial, Denise Riley, Warsan Shire, and John Glenday

»Gedichte so unmittelbar, so eindringlich, als säße eine Schwester neben mir.« Sharon Dodua Otoo Die somalisch-britische Autorin Warsan Shire ist eine Legende. Ihre Texte für Beyoncé machten sie zum Star. Ihre Gedichte fanden weltweit Millionen von Leser*innen. Mit ihren Versen machten Artikel der »New York Times« auf. Die Gedichte in »Haus Feuer Körper« sind eine der großen Überraschungen der Gegenwart: Sensibel und kompromisslos erkunden sie atmosphärisch dicht die Abgründe unserer Welt. Sie erzählen von Vertreibung, Gewalt und Diskriminierung. Der eigene Körper wird zum Instrument einer sinnlichen, poetisch direkten Sprache, die ruft und schreit und der Leser*in ins Ohr flüstert. Um einen Ausweg zu finden, zeichnet sie auf ihre Haut Landkarten. Doch Vorsicht: wo Licht ist, lauert Feuer … »Warsan Shire ist eine außerordentlich begnadete Dichterin, deren zutiefst bewegenden Gedichte dem Unausgesprochenen eine ausdrucksvolle Stimme verleihen.« Bernardine Evaristo Zweisprachige Ausgabe und mit einem Nachwort von Sharon Dodua Otoo

Tom przybliża polskim czytelniczkom i czytelnikom twórczość poetki, której słowa pojawiają się w kultowych utworach z albumu Lemonade, ale też jako hasła na transparentach podczas protestów przeciwko łamaniu praw człowieka osób uchodźczych. Obok wierszy Shire trudno przejść obojętnie. W swojej prostocie trafiają tam, gdzie boli najbardziej. Pozostają w pamięci na długo, trwale zmieniając naszą wrażliwość. Warsan Shire FRSL to brytyjska poetka, pisarka i redaktorka, znana także jako autorka tekstów piosenek Beyonc. Urodziła się w Kenii, a jej rodzina pochodzi z Somalii. Otrzymała wiele nagród za swoją twórczość poetycką, w tym the Brunel University African Poetry Prize oraz tytuł Young Poet Laureate for London.