3/9/2024 0 Comments Home warsan shire![]() Her chapbooks explore a variety of styles, moving seamlessly between verse and prose-poetry. She has also experimented successfully with other media. The limitations and possibilities of social media platforms have shaped the format, style, length, and reception of Shire’s online verse. Other notable Web Poets include Nayyirah Waheed and Rupi Kaur. ![]() Shire arguably belongs to the generation of Web Poets who have used social media platforms such as Tumblr, Twitter and Instagram to publish their work before entering the more formal publishing industry. Shire’s work was also famously featured in Beyoncé’s 2016 visual album Lemonade. Her line ‘No one leaves home unless home is the mouth of a shark’ (from ‘Conversations About Home (at the Deportation Centre)’ in Teaching my Mother How to Give Birth) was taken up by protestors resisting Donald Trump’s travel ban in 2017. Shire’s verse was put to work in both political and pop culture contexts in 20, a natural progression for a poet whose work concentrates on themes of nation, exile, displacement, belonging, the black female body, infidelity and violence. Warsan Shire, ‘Reclaiming the Feminine Voice’, 2014, Yves Salmon (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0) via Flickr
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