![]() Her Blue Body Full of Light impacted me greatly as it stares down the possibility of losing a sibling to cancer, something I have myself faced, with the subsequent poems of grief providing a devastating window into the loss which could have been. Home’s moving monologue brims with a painfully powerful candour it should be compulsory reading nation-wide. Shire’s striking command of form is seen in the wonderfully illustrative structure of Backwards. The delicate thread of family – particularly the mother-daughter relationship – runs throughout, as tender as a nerve. Through her exceptional poems Shire explores Black womanhood, the experiences of being an immigrant in Britain and the reconciliation of family and trauma. Warsan Shire’s bold and heartfelt descriptions of flawed family relationships in her poetry collection, Bless the Daughter Raised by a Voice in her Head, have taken root in my soul. “Dear Uncle, Is everything you love foreign / or are you foreign to everything you love?” Parents and Guardians Guide to University. ![]()
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