After releasing two chapbooks and collaborating with Beyoncé on two of her biggest multimedia projects, expectations were high for Warsan Shire’s debut full-length poetry collection.

With her first full-length poetry collection, Warsan Shire introduces us to a girl who makes her own stumbling way towards womanhood. Drawing from her own life and the lives of loved ones ...

On a wet day in London, around 2013, the poet Warsan Shire turned ... first full collection, “Bless the Daughter Raised by a Voice in Her Head,” will come out in March. In one poem, “My ...

A songbird for refugees, nobody could have predicted that Warsan Shire’s first collection of poems would be published amid another unfolding humanitarian disaster. Those opening words from her ...

Since November of 2014, when poet Rupi Kaur’s then-self-published debut poetry collection ... what you’ll find Warsan Shire’s poetry shares with Kaur’s is a raw and unflinching look ...