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*SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2022 FELIX DENNIS PRIZE FOR BEST FIRST
COLLECTION* ** AS HEARD ON BBC RADIO 4** 'Warsan Shire is an
extraordinarily gifted poet whose profoundly moving poems so
powerfully give voice to the unspoken' Bernardine Evaristo 'Vital,
moving and courageous, this is a debut not to be missed' Guardian
__________ Poems of migration, womanhood, trauma and resilience
from the award-winning Somali British poet Warsan Shire, celebrated
collaborator on Beyonce'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. Each reader will come away changed. 'Warsan Shire
electrifies... The beautifully crafted poems in this collection are
fiercely tender gifts' Roxane Gay 'Absolutely beautiful... So
relevant' Elizabeth Day, *Day's Delights*
'The mouthmark Book of Poetry' is an anthology of the
individual-author titles published under the mouthmark poetry
pamphlet series, comprising the work of Nick Makoha, Inua Ellams,
Jacob Sam-La Rose, Jessica Horn, Truth Thomas, Denise Saul, Malika
Booker, Janett Plummer and Warsan Shire. The series was conceived
by flipped eye publishing's senior editor, Nii Ayikwei Parkes, as a
means to get poets from non-mainstream backgrounds - including
performance - into print. It was revolutionary for two reasons;
first, it was a pamphlet series developed with a specific aim
(later, tall-lighthouse would launch its pilot series, and, much
later, Faber would launch its New Poets Initiative); second, it was
a finite series - to end after ten pamphlets. After some success
with the first two pamphlets in the series, Nick Makoha's 'The Lost
Collection of an Invisible Man' (2005) and Inua Ellams' '13 Fairy
Negro Tales' (2005), the Arts Council of England provided funding
for the next four. It took six years for the series to be
completed, but its impact far exceeded expectations. Authors such
as Inua Ellams, Jacob Sam-La Rose (later editor of the last
pamphlet in the series), Nick Makoha and Warsan Shire, have risen
to international prominence; three of the pamphlets were cited by
the Poetry Book Society pamphlet selectors for their quality; five
of the poets have since been chosen for the ground-breaking
national Complete Works development programme for UK poets of
minority ethnic backgrounds; and Truth Thomas's from his pamphlet
'Party of Black' (2006) was chosen for Nikki Giovanni's 'The 100
Best African American Poems' (Sourcebooks, 2010). Crucially, the
series retailed admirably as well, with over 10,000 copies sold at
events - and through conventional retail channels. Now, with the
release of 'The mouthmark Book of Poetry', readers can experience
all nine individual poets published under the mouthmark poetry
pamphlet series in this collectible volume that retains hallmarks
of the iconic series, such as the distinctive brown paper-look
cover with bold black designs.
The latest volume in Penguin Modern Poets series - moving and
unflinchingly honest poems from three different cultures about
experiences of the female body, the family, sexual politics and
conflict Your Family, Your Body features the work of Malika Booker,
the Guyanese-British writer and performer behind London- and
Chicago-based collective Malika's Kitchen; the Pulitzer
Prize-winning Sharon Olds, one of America's most brilliant, beloved
and candid voices; and Warsan Shire, the award-winning poet and
first ever Young Poetry Laureate of London who also lent her words
to Beyonce's visual album Lemonade. Inspired by Penguin's
enormously successful '60s series of the same name, the Penguin
Modern Poets are succinct, collectible, lovingly-assembled guides
to the richness and diversity of contemporary poetry, from the UK,
America and beyond. Every volume brings together representative
selections from the work of three poets now writing, allowing the
seasoned poetry fan and the curious reader alike to encounter our
most exciting new voices.
What elevates 'teaching my mother how to give birth', what gives
the poems their disturbing brilliance, 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 - as in Tayeb Salih's work -
and translating to the realm of lyric the work of the likes of
Nawal El Saadawi. As Rumi said, "Love will find its way through all
languages on its own"; in 'teaching my mother how to give birth',
Warsan's debut pamphlet, we witness the unearthing of a poet who
finds her way through all preconceptions to strike the heart
directly. Warsan Shire is a Kenyan-born Somali poet and writer who
is based in London. Born in 1988, she is an artist and activist who
uses her work to document narratives of journey and trauma. Warsan
has read her work internationally, including recent readings in
South Africa, Italy and Germany, and her poetry has been translated
into Italian, Spanish and Portuguese.
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