Warsan Shire is a British Somali writer who was born in 1988. She has published two chapbooks, one of which is titled Teaching My Mother How to Give Birth. Shire has also been awarded several prestigious awards including a tenure as the first Young Poet Laureate of London.
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.’ This poem vividly depicts the lived experiences of the refugees both inside and outside of their countries.
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