Bless the Daughter Raised by a Voice in Her Head

byWarsan Shire, Warsan Shire (Read by)

Shortlisted for the 2022 Felix Dennis Prize

Format:

HardbackEbookAudio Download

Buy the book from:

Apple BooksOpens in a new tabAudibleOpens in a new tabGoogle PlayOpens in a new tabHiveOpens in a new tabKoboOpens in a new tabLibro.fmOpens in a new tabSpotifyOpens in a new tabxigxagOpens in a new tab
Bought to you by Penguin.

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

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

About Warsan Shire

Warsan Shire is a Somali-British writer and poet born in Nairobi and raised in London. She wrote the poetry for the visual album Lemonade and Disney film Black Is King in collaboration with Beyoncé Knowles-Carter. She also wrote the short film Brave Girl Rising highlighting the voices and faces of Somali girls in Africa's largest refugee camp.

Bless the Daughter Raised by a Voice in Her Head, her debut collection, was published in 2022 and shortlisted for the Dylan Thomas Prize and Forward Prize for Best First Collection that year. Warsan lives in Los Angeles with her husband and two children.
Learn more
Details
  • Imprint: Vintage Digital
  • ISBN: 9781473588561
  • Length: 68 minutes
  • Price: £9.00
All editions