Bless the Daughter Raised By A Voice in Her Head

Warsan Shire

Service95 Recommends is the home of the books we’re loving and reviews from our contributors. Bless the Daughter Raised By A Voice in Her Head by Warsan Shire is a full-length poetry collection from the Beyonce collaborator exploring the immigrant experience and the realities of being a refugee. 

What We Say: “Essential and intrepid, this collection of poems exploring migration, trauma, resilience and womanhood from the award-winning Somali British poet Warsan Shire (and collaborator on Beyoncé’s Lemonade and Black Is King) is a triumph.” – Samantha de Haas

What They Say: “It is absolutely astonishing how much emotion, intelligence, imagination, and truth Warsan Shire can get into one collection. She is a poet of the highest order, with a compassionate heart, and a limitless mind” – Benjamin Zephaniah

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Samantha de Haas is the Creative Production Manager at Service95

Read More: Warsan Shire On Her Responsibility As A Black Artist To ‘Bear Witness’ To Forgotten Stories

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