Tag Archives: Warsan Shire

The “Isness of the Agony of Displacement – Part Two – Three Poems, One by Michael Rosen and Two-in-One by Brian Bilston

March 5, 2022 – 11:21 am

The Migrants in Me Maybe I look as if you could spin a story at me about how threatening and dangerous migrants are, as I neither I nor you would […]

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The “isness” of the Agony of Displacement – Part One – A Poem by Warsan Shire from Her New Poetry Collection

March 3, 2022 – 4:01 pm

ASSIMILATION We never unpacked, dreaming in the wrong language, carrying our mother’s fears in our feet— if he raises his voice we will flee if he looks bored we will […]

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Singing in Dark Times – #9 in a series – Where Does the World Hurt – Everywhere. A Poem by Warsan Shire. And One More for Good Measure!

March 19, 2020 – 8:32 pm

what they did yesterday afternoon they set my aunts house on fire i cried the way women on tv do folding at the middle like a five pound note. i […]

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