A year ago, we reported the appointment of Warsan Shire as London’s first ever young poet laureate. Well, a whole year has now passed and her tenure has come to an end. According to BBC news, she had a memorable “year of residences ranging from the Houses of Parliament to beauty salons…as well as the creation […]
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Girls Smelling Of Lonely — Two Poems by London’s Coolest Poet, Warsan Shire
Warsan Shire—Kenyan-born Somali poet—is the best kept secret in the African poetry scene. I discovered her work a few months ago when she won the first edition of the Brunel University African Poetry Prize. Her poems are blistering, beautiful, bewitching. They are suggestive of violence and a deep sense of loss and longing. And they […]
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