She is the first poet I will review, whose poetry came to me as so beautifully difficult and this work is one of the easier ways to introduce her to anyone who has not read her work.
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I have tried on countless occasions to review a poem of hers but much of her poetry’s depth makes it difficult to do full justice. Many of them, if not all, portray a woman who is fundamentally feminist. Warsan’s poetry is very simple yet very deep. She moved to London with her family when she was still young and has traveled extensively for her poetry.
She became popular in 2011 when her poem “ For Women Who Are ‘Difficult’ to Love” (video with voiceover by Warsan) went viral. Warsan Shire was born in Somalia in 1988. Warsan has moved on in leaps and bounds since winning that award. Also, the fact that it was an African poetry prize initiated by Bernadine Evaristo “to draw attention” to poetry from Africa, gave me more than a little joy. I had applied to that prize so I followed it keenly.
My introduction to her poetry came in 2013 when she became the inaugural winner of the Brunel University African poetry prize. If you have been following new, exciting African poets, you have surely heard of Warsan Shire. Tag Cloud #GhanaLit Africa African literature African poetry African Poetry Book Fund Ahmed Fouad Negm Anyidoho apartheid Australia Awoonor blog Brunel Poetry Prize Citi FM death Dennis Brutus Dennis Osadebe Egypt friend Fukushima Ghana Ghanaian Literature Week Ghanaian poetry Golden Baobab Prize How Do We Spell Freedom Italy Ivory Coast Japan Just A Passerby Kenya Kofi Anyidoho Kofi Awoonor Kwame Dawes Kwesi Brew lady lass Lenrie Peters Leopold Sedar Senghor Libya life literature Long distance runner love Mandela Mogadishu Naett Negritude Negro New Zealand Ngugi Nigeria Osadebe Osundare Oswald Mbuyiseni Mtshali Peters Phillippa Yaa de Villiers poem poetry politics President revolution Roger Bonair-Agard Senegal Senghor Sierra Leone Sillerman Prize Somalia South Africa Syria The Mesh Tunisia Warsan Shire Who Buys My Thoughts writer writing Yemen.Exciting News: Azalia Books is changing the Ghanaian book Marketplace.Sometimes blogging translates into tangible reality – with Phillippa Yaa de Villers in Ghana.How Do We Spell Ghana? – a reading at Citi FM.
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