Teaching My Mother How to Give Birth

This collection of poetry, 'Teaching My Mother How to Give Birth', beautifully and eloquently explores sensuality and the dominant narrative of Islam, while reclaiming the more nuanced truths of earlier times. Warsan Shire is a Kenyan-born Somali poet and writer who uses her work to document narratives of journey and trauma. Her debut pamphlet unearths a poet who finds her way through all preconceptions to strike the heart directly.