![]() ![]() 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. Born in 1988, she is an artist and activist who uses her work to document narratives of journey and trauma. Sign in to check out what your friends, family & interests have been capturing & sharing around the world. Warsan Shire is a Kenyan-born Somali poet and writer who is based in London. 65.3k Followers, 558 Following, 141 Posts - See Instagram photos and videos from WARSAN SHIRE (warsanshiree) Welcome back to Instagram. 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. Poème de WARSAN SHIRE : « HOME » Fille de migrant WARSAN SHIRE se souvient. ![]() ![]() 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. ![]()
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