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Warsan Shire

March 2023

  • Clockwise from top left: Robbie Arnott, Sheena Patel, Sara Baume, Arinze Ifeakandu, Warsan Shire and Saba Sams.

    Dylan Thomas prize shortlist includes four debuts

  • Warsan Shire.

    The books of my life
    Warsan Shire: ‘Toni Morrison had a tremendous impact on how I view myself as a woman’

May 2022

  • Kayo Chingonyi.

    ‘The poems began to dance among themselves’: curating a fresh mixtape of Black British poetry

    A companion to 1998’s The Fire People, Kayo Chingonyi’s anthology creates a space for a new generation of voices to express the wide range of their work

April 2022

  • Cursed Bunny by Bora Chung, Aftermath by Preti Taneja and Bless the Daughter Raised By a Voice in Her Head by Warsan Shire

    What we're reading
    What we’re reading: writers and readers on the books they enjoyed in March

    Norman Erikson Pasaribu, Sana Goyaland Guardian readers Melissa and Joe discuss the titles they’ve read over the last month

February 2022

  • DO NOT USE. FOR SATURDAY COVER 26 FEB 2022. NO OTHER USAGE UNTIL AFTER THAT DATE. Warsan Shire photographed in Los Angeles, January 2022

    Warsan Shire talks to Bernardine Evaristo about becoming a superstar poet: ‘Beyoncé sent flowers when my children were born’

    One is a breakout poet, the other is a Booker-winning champion of Black talent. They swap notes on class, impostor syndrome and the day pop’s biggest star came knocking

June 2016

  • ‘Introducing contemporary poetry to the general reader’ ... Penguin Modern Poets

    Penguin Modern Poets series gets 21st-century relaunch

  • Beyoncé Formation

    Brittle Paper
    Beyoncé is not shining a light on African literature – it's the other way round

May 2016

  • The Flight into Egypt by Vittore Carpaccio.

    Top 10s
    Top 10 refugees' stories

    The current trauma of displaced people on the move in Europe is nothing new, and accounts of forced migration have been told since the earliest times. These are some of the best

April 2016

  • The migrant talking back … Warsan Shire.

    Books blog
    Warsan Shire: the Somali-British poet quoted by Beyoncé in Lemonade

    She was London’s Young Poet Laureate, becoming a voice for its marginalised people – now her work has been recited by the queen of pop

September 2015

  • Warsan Shire

    Guardian Africa network
    Poets speak out for refugees: 'No one leaves home, unless home is the mouth of a shark'

  • Benedict Cumberbatch lends his voice to the refugee crisis

    Help Is Coming: how the single for refugees came together

July 2014

  • Globe

    Fifty greatest modern love poems list embraces 30 different countries

    Global reach of experts' new selection ranges over last 50 years, from Scotland to Saudi Arabia, Korea to Kurdistan

February 2014

  • Warsan Shire

    End FGM campaign
    Warsan Shire: young poet laureate wields her pen against FGM

  • Warsan Shire FGM book

    End FGM campaign
    Girls: Warsan Shire's poem about FGM – video

October 2013

  • The Prince of Wales having tea in the living room of the birthplace of Dylan Thomas in Swansea. Prince Charles recorded Fern Hill by the Welsh writer to mark National Poetry Day.

    Poster poems
    National Poetry Day as it happened

    Follow how National Poetry Day unfolded
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