Laith Majid cries tears of joy and relief that he and his children have made it to Europe. Photograph by Daniet Etter/New York Times/Redux /eyevine. ![]() She has written two chapbooks, Teaching My Mother How to Give Birth. Warsan is also the unanimous winner of the 2013 Inaugural Brunel University African Poetry Prize. Warsan Shire is a Somali British writer and poet born in Nairobi and raised in London. The poem urges the west host countries to show modest getting attitude to welcome the refugees and understand their suffering and pain. Her poetry has been translated into Italian, Spanish and Portuguese. The lines no one leaves home unless/ home is the mouth of a shark that made us rethink the global refugee crisis, appear in Somali-British poet Warsan Shire’s poem ‘Home.’. The poem Home by Warsan Shire focuses on the importance of house and demonstrates how the connotation of home is skilled by refugees. In 2012 she represented Somalia at the Poetry Parnassus, the festival of the world poets at the Southbank, London. She is the current poetry editor at SPOOK magazine. This Study Guide consists of approximately 19 pages of chapter summaries, quotes, character analysis, themes, and more - everything you need to sharpen your knowledge of Home. ![]() Her poems have been published in Wasafiri, Magma and Poetry Review and in the anthology ‘The Salt Book of Younger Poets’ (Salt, 2011). Home, by Warsan Shire (British-Somali poet) no one leaves home unless home is the mouth of a shark. Born in 1988, Warsan has read her work extensively all over Britain and internationally – including recent readings in South Africa, Italy, Germany, Canada, North America and Kenya- and her début book, ‘TEACHING MY MOTHER HOW TO GIVE BIRTH’(flipped eye), was published in 2011. Warsan Shire is a Kenyan-born Somali poet, writer and educator based in London.
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