Warsan Shire

"With you, intimacy colours my voice.even ‘hello’ sounds like ‘come here'."

"How far have you walked for men who’ve never held your feet in their laps?"

"Loving you was like going to war I never came back the same."

"I still feel very homeless. I live in London and have been here nearly my whole life, but it is a difficult city to connect to. I have travelled around and found my body making more sense elsewhere. B…"

"My poems come to me in images, like film. I can see it very clearly and then this overwhelming urge to write out best what I just saw comes over me…"

"Warsan means “good news” and Shire means “to gather in one place”. My parents named me after my father’s mother, my grandmother. Growing up, I absolutely wanted a name that was easier to pronounce, mo…"

"I wrote the poem for them, for my family and for anyone who has experienced or lived around grief and trauma in that way."