Warsan Shire | Poet

From Emergent Africa Thu Sep 26 2013, 10:00:00

Promising poetry:

Kenyan-born Somali poet WARSAN SHIRE has been announced as the first ever winner of the Brunel University African Poetry Prize. The prize of £3,000 is funded by Brunel University, Commonwealth Writers and The Africa Centre.

Her poetry pamphlet, Teaching My Mother How to Give Birth, was published in 2011 by flipped eye. Her poems have appeared in Wasafiri, Magma and Poetry Review and in the Salt Book of Younger Poets (Salt, 2011). They have been translated into Italian, Spanish and Portuguese.

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