![]() ![]() Buddingh' Prize, the Awater Poetry Prize, the Herman de Coninck Prize and the Grote Poëzie Prize. Home is a poem about migration, and the traumas and complexities that define it. Fabias made her debut as a poet with Habitus, with which she won the C. Bless the daughter is translated by Radna Fabias (1983), born and raised in Curaçao. In 2016, Shire co-wrote Beyoncé's album Lemonade and reached millions of new fans. She was translated into Italian, Spanish and Portuguese. Her words No one leaves home unless/home is the mouth of a shark, from the poem Conversations about Home (at a deportation center), have been called a. She became London's first-ever Young People's Poet Laureate, she received the African Poetry Prize and she became the youngest person ever to be named Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. The poems she published online attracted tens of thousands of followers on social media. Shire (1988) was born in Kenya to Somali parents and migrated to England when she was one year old. Drawing on her own life and that of her loved ones, pop culture and media headlines, Shire's highly anticipated debut collection Bless the Daughter brings to life the lives of refugees and migrants, mothers and daughters, black women and teenage girls in beautiful poems. Shire writes about her own experiences as a migrant, about not feeling at home anywhere, about war, sex and being a woman. This morning, Katherine wrote about Europe’s violent treatment of refugees and why American feminists should take note if it. You have to understand, that no one puts their children in a boat unless the water is safer than the land. Her poem 'Home' was shared worldwide as a call for a more humane policy and instantly made Shire famous. Poetry Break: Warsan Shire’s Home and the refugee crisis. Her work has appeared in a range of journals and anthologies, including Poetry Review, Wasafiri, Sable LitMag the Salt Book of Younger Poets (2011), Long. I can make the blood run back up my nose, ants rushing into a hole. He takes off his jacket and sits down for the rest of his life that’s how we bring Dad back. ![]() ![]() “No one leaves home unless there's a shark's mouth at home.” With these words, among other things, the young Somali-British poet Warsan Shire touched a nerve in the middle of the European refugee crisis in 2015. Back to Previous Backwards By Warsan Shire The poem can start with him walking backwards into a room. ![]()
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