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Her Blue Body

Her Blue Body | Warsan Shire

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Through her role as London's first Young Poet Laureate, Warsan Shire turned her eye to the city, interrogating the capital and its continuing transformation, even while lending voice to its oft unheard or under-represented communities and spaces. Collecting work authored during Shire's tenure, 'Her Blue Body' stands as testament and witness, negotiating the complexities of heritage, cultural sensitivity, sensuality, trauma and womanhood, framed and ordered by a sequence of memorial poems, focused through the lens of Shire's intimate and unflinching vision.

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Her Blue Body | Warsan Shire

later that night
i held an atlas in my lap ran my fingers across the whole world and whispered
where does it hurt?
it answered everywhere everywhere everywhere.

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(I‘m off til Sunday. Heading out with Mr BookHippie on our annual trip north to celebrate us)

Itchyfeetreader Enjoy your trip and thank you for sharing those beautiful haunting words 7mo

Cinfhen Enjoy! It‘s good to take a break from all of this heaviness 7mo

Cinfhen Wow! That was powerful 7mo

TheBookHippie @Cinfhen 💔🇮🇱💙 7mo

kspenmoll Thank you for this. 7mo

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World Refugee Day. We have to do so much better!

BibliOphelia I used this exact quote earlier today. 💔💔 6y

JanuarieTimewalker13 Yes, you‘re so right! Brilliant! 6y

Bibliogeekery @BibliOphelia 💔 6y

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Her Blue Body | Warsan Shire

World Refugee Day....#warsanshire #humanity

Cinfhen 💔 6y

Bookish_B 😢 6y

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Her Blue Body | Warsan Shire

Warsan Shire is a bad ass! #femalepoets #blackgirlmagic

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Her Blue Body | Warsan Shire

This poem speaks to my soul on several levels. #books #booklover #warsanshire #readingblackout

GatheringBooks this is one of my favourites! great choice. 6y

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Her Blue Body | Warsan Shire

Someone is watching Lemonade again!! 🍋👑❤️

Suet624 A masterpiece. 7y

BestOfFates I love that art! 7y

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Her Blue Body | Warsan Shire

Jan. 23: Home - Shire is a brilliant woman whose voice resonates. Her skill with language is enviable. #LitsyPoetry365

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Her Blue Body | Warsan Shire

.....#poets #bgm #blackgirlmagic

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Her Blue Body | Warsan Shire

"I am a lover without a lover. I am lovely and lonely and I belong deeply to myself."- Warsan Shire
I think this is one of the truest #quotes out there! #happiness #confidence #Destiny