Warsan Shire

Den kenyanskfødde britisk-somaliske poeten Warsan Shire (f. 1988) tok verda med storm med diktsamlinga «Eg lærer mor mi å føde» - også superstjerna Beyoncé, som siterer Shire i fleng på albumet «Lemonade». Om Shires nye diktsamling, «Velsigne dottera oppdratt av ei stemme i hovudet», skriv den amerikanske poeten Terrance Hayes at Warsan Shire skriv slik Nina Simone song; ho skildrar kvinneliv med kjærleik og kompleksitet. Via utforsking av popkultur og nyheitsoverskrifter frå tusenårsskiftet forsøker Shire å gi stemme til eit mangfaldig kollektiv av melaninrike søstrer. Ho skriv om spenninga mellom tru og familie, motstand og plikt, og skildrar liv fulle av lyd og lukter, musikk, gråt og suraer, av parfyme og gurkemeie, og av blod. «Velsigne dottera oppdratt av ei stemme i hovudet» er musikalsk og sanseleg poesi med ei konfronterande kraft. Gjendikta av Kristina Leganger Iversen og Camara Lundestad Joof.

*SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2022 FELIX DENNIS PRIZE FOR BEST FIRST COLLECTION*** AS HEARD ON BBC RADIO 4**'Warsan Shire is an extraordinarily gifted poet whose profoundly moving poems so powerfully give voice to the unspoken' Bernardine Evaristo'Vital, moving and courageous, this is a debut not to be missed' Guardian__________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. Each reader will come away changed.'Warsan Shire electrifies... The beautifully crafted poems in this collection are fiercely tender gifts' Roxane Gay'Absolutely beautiful... So relevant' Elizabeth Day, *Day's Delights*

I Välsigna dottern möter vi en ung flicka som i frånvaron av vägledning och omsorg finner sin egen väg in i vuxenvärlden. Med inspiration hämtat från sitt eget liv, såväl som från populärkulturen och nyhetsrubrikerna gestaltar Warsan Shire med levande och unik stil erfarenheter av flykt och förfrämlingande, av mental ohälsa och utsatthet, av moderskap och ungdom. I hennes händer blir livet på ett underligt sätt fulländat. Våldet, ensamheten och hemlängtan till trots. Det är en vibrerande värld full av musik, gråt, bön och sång. Ett polykromt liv av henna, månljus, läppstift och kohl. Välsigna dottern samlar dikter skrivna under de senaste tio åren. Ett årtionde under vilket Warsan Shire blivit en av de mest eftersökta poeterna i världen. Hon har bidragit med dikter till Beyoncé Knowles-Carters två visuella album Lemonade och Black Is King samt skrivit kortfilmen Brave Girl Rising.

Poems of migration, womanhood, trauma, and resilience from the celebrated collaborator on Beyonc 's Lemonade and Black Is King, award-winning Somali British poet Warsan Shire "The beautifully crafted poems in this collection are fiercely tender gifts."--Roxane Gay, author of Bad Feminist "Warsan Shire is our ultimate modern poet. . . . This is our James Baldwin."--The New York Times Culture Desk LONGLISTED FOR THE GRIFFIN POETRY PRIZE - ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: Vanity Fair, The Guardian, Publishers Weekly Mama, I made it / out of your home / alive, raised by / the voices / in my head. With her first full-length poetry collection, Warsan Shire introduces us to a young girl, who, in the absence of a nurturing guide, makes her own way toward womanhood. Drawing from her own life, 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. In Shire's hands, lives spring into fullness. This is noisy life, full of music and weeping and surahs and sirens and birds. This is fragrant life, full of blood and perfume and shisha smoke and jasmine and incense. This is polychrome life, full of henna and moonlight and lipstick and turmeric and kohl. The long-awaited collection from one of our most exciting contemporary poets, this book is a blessing, an incantatory celebration of resilience and survival. Each reader will come away changed.

Krigens brutalitet i rå kjensler. Den kenyanskfødde, britisk-somaliske poeten Warsan Shire (f. 1988) tok verda med storm med diktsamlinga «Eg lærer mor mi å føde» i 2011 - også superstjerna Beyonce, som siterer Shire i fleng på albumet «Lemonade» frå 2016. Boka er ein hyllest til familien, som måtte flykte frå heimlandet, og dikta teiknar bilde av krigsherja landskap med omstreifande militsgjengar og liv levde i frykt og terror. Shire konfronterer lesaren med menneske tvungne til å forlate heimane sine og tanken om at ingen er trygge om katastrofen skulle inntreffe - heller ikkje i Vesten. Kroppen er eit viktig motiv - først og fremst kvinnekroppen - og valden som blir utført mot han, både i og utanfor heimen. Ved å hevde fullstendig eigarskap over eigen kropp proklamerer ho at ho, trass systematisk undertrykking, rasisme og brutalitet, ikkje vil la seg kue. Shire sparer ikkje på detaljane, og røysta hennar flyt over på papiret i rå kjensler og eit vakkert, bilderikt språk. Gjendikta frå engelsk av Camara Lundestad Joof og Kristina Leganger Iversen.

Lära min mor att föda handlar om kvinnor, kärlek, ensamhet och krig. Om flykt och hemlängtan. Det är en uppgörelse med männen och en hyllning till kvinnorna. När Warsan Shire skriver öppnar hon ett sår i sig själv, kartlägger sina trauman och använder dikten som ett verktyg till läkning. Lära min mor att föda utkom på engelska 2011 och är Warsan Shires debut. Nu är denna första inblick i ett dynamiskt och starkt författarskap äntligen tillgängligt på svenska. I hemlandet England har hon skapat sig en stor läsarkrets och internationellt har hennes dikter översats till flera språk.

'The mouthmark Book of Poetry' is an anthology of the individual-author titles published under the mouthmark poetry pamphlet series, comprising the work of Nick Makoha, Inua Ellams, Jacob Sam-La Rose, Jessica Horn, Truth Thomas, Denise Saul, Malika Booker, Janett Plummer and Warsan Shire. The series was conceived by flipped eye publishing's senior editor, Nii Ayikwei Parkes, as a means to get poets from non-mainstream backgrounds - including performance - into print. It was revolutionary for two reasons; first, it was a pamphlet series developed with a specific aim (later, tall-lighthouse would launch its pilot series, and, much later, Faber would launch its New Poets Initiative); second, it was a finite series - to end after ten pamphlets. After some success with the first two pamphlets in the series, Nick Makoha's 'The Lost Collection of an Invisible Man' (2005) and Inua Ellams' '13 Fairy Negro Tales' (2005), the Arts Council of England provided funding for the next four. It took six years for the series to be completed, but its impact far exceeded expectations. Authors such as Inua Ellams, Jacob Sam-La Rose (later editor of the last pamphlet in the series), Nick Makoha and Warsan Shire, have risen to international prominence; three of the pamphlets were cited by the Poetry Book Society pamphlet selectors for their quality; five of the poets have since been chosen for the ground-breaking national Complete Works development programme for UK poets of minority ethnic backgrounds; and Truth Thomas's from his pamphlet 'Party of Black' (2006) was chosen for Nikki Giovanni's 'The 100 Best African American Poems' (Sourcebooks, 2010). Crucially, the series retailed admirably as well, with over 10,000 copies sold at events - and through conventional retail channels. Now, with the release of 'The mouthmark Book of Poetry', readers can experience all nine individual poets published under the mouthmark poetry pamphlet series in this collectible volume that retains hallmarks of the iconic series, such as the distinctive brown paper-look cover with bold black designs.

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. 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. Warsan Shire is a Kenyan-born Somali poet and writer who is based in London. Born in 1988, she is an artist and activist who uses her work to document narratives of journey and trauma. 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.