![]() ![]() In 2013, she was appointed the first Young People’s Laureate for London and in 2015, her poem Home became a viral anthem for the refugee crisis. After a responsibility-laden adolescence, spent combining writing with co-parenting her three younger siblings, Shire published her debut chapbook of poems, Teaching My Mother How to Give Birth in 2011, aged just 23. ![]() Shire has also since contributed work to Beyoncé’s 2020 film Black is King and wrote a specially commissioned poem, I Have Three Hearts, to announce the singer’s 2017 pregnancy with twins.īut even before Beyoncé came knocking, Shire was starward bound. The result was the revolutionary 2016 visual album Lemonade, on which Shire is credited with “film adaptation and poetry” her verses are read aloud between songs. Beyoncé – the real Beyoncé – was inviting Shire, a 27-year-old British-Somali poet from Wembley, north-west London, to collaborate. W hen an email from Beyoncé’s office first landed in Warsan Shire’s inbox, she assumed it was some kind of prank. ![]()
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