With her first full-length poetry collection, Warsan Shire introduces us to a young girl, who, in the absence of a nurturing guide, makes her own stumbling way toward womanhood.
Mama, I made it / out of your home / alive, raised by / the voices / in my head. ONE OF THE MOST ANTICIPATED BOOKS OF 2022 - Vogue, BuzzFeed, Esquire, Bustle, Essence, The Week, Lit Hub 'The beautifully crafted poems in this collection are fiercely tender gifts.' - Roxane Gay, author of Bad Feminist and Hunger
Poems of migration, womanhood, trauma, and resilience from the celebrated collaborator on Beyoncé's Lemonade and Black Is King, award-winning Somali British poet Warsan Shire
