Warsan Shire

no one leaves home unless
home is the mouth of a shark

I bought Warsan Shire's pamphlet teaching my mother how to give birth on the strength of some of her poems that had been widely shared and quoted on Twitter and Facebook. 

I'm so glad I did. 

It's not comfortable reading. And that's a good thing. 

The poems are brilliant. 

Buy it. 

Warsan Shire has 53.5K followers on Twitter - when you read her poems you can understand why. 

Here's  'Home' which is not in the pamphlet, but which I've quoted from above.

Warsan Shire: teaching my mother how to give birth, flipped eye, 2011