Bless the Daughter Raised by a Voice in Her Head

Author Warsan Shire
Narrator Warsan Shire
Publisher Random House
Publish Date 10 March 2022
Run Time 1 hours and 8 minutes
Format Audio
Genre Ethnic groups and multicultural studies, Feminism and feminist theory, Gender studies: women and girls, Migration, immigration and emigration, Modern and contemporary poetry (c 1900 onwards), Poetry by individual poets, Sex and sexuality, social aspects, Social groups: religious groups and communities, Sociology: death and dying, Sociology: family and relationships.

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Poems of migration, womanhood, trauma and resilience from the award-winning Somali British poet Warsan Shire, celebrated collaborator on Beyoncé's Lemonade and Black Is King.

With her first full-length poetry collection, Warsan Shire introduces us to a girl who, in the absence of a nurturing guide, makes her own stumbling way toward womanhood. Drawing from her own life and the lives of loved ones, 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. These are noisy lives, full of music and weeping and surahs. These are fragrant lives, full of blood and perfume and jasmine. These are polychrome lives, full of moonlight and turmeric and kohl.

The long-awaited collection from one of our most exciting contemporary poets is a blessing, an incantatory celebration of survival. Every reader will come away changed.

© Warsan Shire 2022 (P) Penguin Audio 2022

Critics Review

I have long been a massive fan of Warsan Shire's extraordinarily gifted poetry. Her exquisite, memorable and finely-tuned poems articulate a depth of experience that never fails to surprise and profoundly move me, as she so powerfully gives voice to the unspoken

Bernardine Evaristo

An incredible collection

Stylist

Shire invokes the creative powers of the writer to transform one's past... Vital, moving and courageous, this is a debut not to be missed

'The best recent poetry' - Guardian

It is absolutely astonishing how much emotion, intelligence, imagination, and truth Warsan Shire can get into one collection. She is a poet of the highest order, with a compassionate heart, and a limitless mind

Benjamin Zephaniah

Must-read poetry from the superstar Somali-British writer Warsan Shire

Stylist

Warsan Shire... explores trauma, womanhood and migration so magnificently that even Beyoncé has quoted her

Harper's Bazaar

I read Warsan Shire's eagerly awaited debut poetry collection, Bless the Daughter Raised By a Voice in Her Head, greedily, in one giant gulp. It surpassed my expectations, and shortly after I turned the final page of this collection, I wanted more

Guardian

Shire's strikingly beautiful imagery leverages the specificity of her own womanhood, love life, tussles with mental health, grief, family history, and stories from the Somali diaspora, to make them reverberate universally... Enthralling... The poetry in Bless the Daughter soothes, even while it picks at the scabs of the wounds that cause trauma

Daily Telegraph

Powerful metaphors characterise Warsan Shire's Bless the Daughter Raised By a Voice in Her Head, a book of blessings, of ecstasy through trauma, in particular the trauma of the refugee

Irish Times

Poetry is a sure-fire way to change your mental landscape and this long-awaited collection from the Somali-British poet/Beyoncé collaborator combines poems about war and migration with celebrations of joy

'60 ways to turn your world upside down' - Guardian

Details

Author	Warsan Shire
Narrator	Warsan Shire
Duration	1 hours and 8 minutes
Release Date	10 March 2022
ISBN	9781473588561
Format	Audiobook
Publisher	Random House
Genre	Ethnic groups and multicultural studies, Feminism and feminist theory, Gender studies: women and girls, Migration, immigration and emigration, Modern and contemporary poetry (c 1900 onwards), Poetry by individual poets, Sex and sexuality, social aspects, Social groups: religious groups and communities, Sociology: death and dying, Sociology: family and relationships
Availability	AU, GB, IE

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