Bless the Daughter Raised by a Voice in Her Head health & safety a landscape whose contours reach

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

Socrates debates goodness outside the courthouse

intoxicating in its sensual detail

Simply irresistible

topical and shot through with insider knowledge

Bless the Daughter Raised by a Voice in Her Head health & safety a landscape whose contours reachThe 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