Bless the Daughter Raised by a Voice in Her Head
- Author Warsan Shire
- Narrator Warsan Shire
- Publisher Random House
- Run Time 1 hour 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, Poetry by individual poets, Sex and sexuality, social aspects, Social groups: religious groups and communities, Society and Social Sciences, Sociology: death and dying, Sociology: family and relationships.
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What to expect
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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
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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
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