She is the current poetry editor at SPOOK magazine and teaches workshops internationally and online: using poetry to explore memory, voice and heal trauma. Her poetry has been translated into Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Danish, Estonian and Swedish. Her poems have appeared in Poetry Review, Wasafiri, Magma, and in anthologies ‘The Salt Book of Younger Poets’ (Salt, 2011) and ‘Ten: The New Wave’ (Bloodaxe, 2014). She holds a BA in Creative Writing and has published three chapbooks, ‘Teaching my Mother How to Give Birth’ (flipped eye, 2012), and ‘Our Men Do Not Belong To Us’ (2014, Prairie Schooner), and the forthcoming ‘grief has it’s blue hands in my hair’ (flipped eye, 2015) She was also appointed the first Young Poet Laureate for London in 2014. ![]() In 2014 she was selected as Queensland, Australia’s poet in residence where she spent six weeks collaborating with the Aboriginal Centre for Performing Arts. Her words “No one leaves home unless/home is the mouth of a shark”, from the poem “Conversations about Home (at a deportation center)”, have been called “a rallying call for refugees and their advocates”. In 2013 she was awarded the inaugural Brunel University African Poetry Prize, chosen from a shortlist of six candidates out of a total 655 entries. Born in Kenya in 1988 and raised in London to Somali parents, she has read her work extensively as an internationally touring poet. Warsan Shire is a writer, poet, editor and teacher. No one leaves home unless home is a sweaty voice in your ear Messed up their own country and now they want No one spends days and nights in the cold bladder of a truckįeeding on newspaper unless the miles travelled That no one would put their children in a boat Made it clear that you would not be going back. ![]() Only tearing up your passport in airport toilets No one leaves home unless home chases youĪnd even then you carried the anthem under Who kissed you dizzy behind the old tin factory ![]() not the best interests of States tend to prevent their full implementation. When you see the whole city running as well This paper analyses in Warsan Shires poem Home why refugees have to leave. However, its theme of migration and identity got me thinking about one of my favourite poems – Home by Warsan Shire. I’m currently reading David Mogo Godhunter by Suyi Davies Okungbowa.
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