warsan shire

@warsan_shire

WRITER & CIYAAL SUUQ contactwarsan@rockingchairbooks.com

los angeles via london via mogadishu
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Joined December 2010

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    Apr 24

    The poem can start with him walking backwards into a room. / He takes off his jacket and sits down for the rest of his life; / that’s how we bring Dad back. Take a moment to slow down today with "Backwards" by :

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  2. 29 May 2018

    'every cell in my body lined up for you legs a little open once again' - Bjork

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  3. 20 Apr 2018

    here's the beautiful and inspiring ILHAN OMAR reading my poem 'conversations about home at the deportation centre'.

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  4. Retweeted
    16 Jun 2017

    . becomes tearful when remembering Khadija Saye, a friend lost in the Grenfell Tower fire.

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  5. Retweeted
    20 May 2017

    To a Peabody for , an innovative, stunningly beautiful masterpiece:

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  6. 2 Mar 2017

    'get out' is a perfect film and i'll think about it forever

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  7. 23 Feb 2017

    'goodnight mommy' (2014) stellar horror

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  8. 23 Feb 2017

    can't wait to watch 'get out' (2017)

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  9. 22 Feb 2017

    listening to 'my favorite murder' really helps calm my anxiety

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    16 Feb 2017

    IF THERES AN ANIMAL IN EXISTENCE THAT VOMITS WITH EXCITEMENT, WE ARE THAT! 🔥

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  11. 17 Feb 2017

    ALLAHU AKBAR

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  12. 28 Jan 2017

    apocalyptic walahi

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  13. 26 Jan 2017

    'if they come for me in the morning, they will come for you in the night.' - angela davis

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  14. 26 Jan 2017

    So happy to be published w my most cherished writers, and Sharon Olds. Their poems have saved my life.

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  15. 26 Apr 2016

    yosra i hope you're proud of us. 'LEMONADE' the visual album (2016)

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  16. 26 Feb 2016

    'the witch' (2015) gorgeous horror, can't stop thinking about it. i also loved 'it follows' (2014) &'the babadook' (2014).

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  17. 7 Jan 2016

    'i reach out in love, my hands are guns, my good intentions are completely lethal.' — margaret atwood

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  18. 7 Jan 2016

    'the legend grows legs when it comes back to haunt us' - pusha t

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  19. 16 Dec 2015

    i've been working on my full collection of poetry since 2012, it will be published 2016 and i'm really excited about it.

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  20. 16 Dec 2015

    'her blue body' isn't my full collection, it's a likkle chapbook i had to produce at the end of my tenure as young poet laureate for london.

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