Bless the Daughter Raised by a Voice in Her Head health & safety on holiday or for business

on holiday or for business

or not having any sex at all

on bush survival

intoxicating in its sensual detail

a landscape whose contours reach back to Shakespeare's England by way of two world wars and a coming of age shaped by the Suez crisis and the Cold War

Bless the Daughter Raised by a Voice in Her Head health & safety on holiday or for businessThe debut collection from award winning Somali British poet Warsan Shire, celebrated collaborator on Beyonce's Lemonade and Black Is King. *SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2022 FELIX DENNIS PRIZE FOR BEST FIRST COLLECTION* ** AS HEARD ON BBC RADIO 4** 'Warsan Shire is an extraordinarily gifted poet whose profoundly moving poems so powerfully give voice to the unspoken' Bernardine Evaristo 'Vital, moving and courageous, this is a debut not to be missed' Guardian