![]() you have to understand, that no one puts their children in a boat unless the water is safer than the land no one burns their palms under trains beneath carriages no one spends days and nights in the stomach of a truck feeding on newspaper unless the miles travelled means something more than journey. ![]() no one leaves home unless home chases you fire under feet hot blood in your belly it's not something you ever thought of doing until the blade burnt threats into your neck and even then you carried the anthem under your breath only tearing up your passport in an airport toilets sobbing as each mouthful of paper made it clear that you wouldn't be going back. No one leaves home unless home is the mouth of a shark you only run for the border when you see the whole city running as well your neighbors running faster than you breath bloody in their throats the boy you went to school with who kissed you dizzy behind the old tin factory is holding a gun bigger than his body you only leave home when home won't let you stay. She therein liaised with the Aboriginal Centre for Performing Arts over a six-week period.) In 2014, Shire was also chosen as Queensland, Australia's poet in residence. The honour is part of the London Legacy Development Corporation's Spoke programme, which focuses on promoting arts and culture in Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park and the surrounding area. In October 2013, Shire was also selected from a shortlist of six young bards as the first Young Poet Laureate for London. She was chosen from a shortlist of six candidates out of a total 655 entries. In April 2013, she was presented with Brunel University's inaugural African Poetry Prize, an award earmarked for poets who have yet to publish a full-length poetry collection. Shire has received various awards for her art. In addition, she teaches poetry workshops both globally and online for cathartic and aesthetic purposes. She also serves as the poetry editor at SPOOK magazine. They have also been translated into a number of languages, including Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Swedish, Danish and Estonian.Īs of 2015, Shire is working on her first full poetry collection. Additionally, Shire's verse has been featured in the Salt Book of Younger Poets (Salt, 2011) and Ten: The New Wave (Bloodaxe, 2014) collections. Her poems have been republished in various literary publications, such as the Poetry Review, Magma and Wasafiri. Shire has read her poetry in various artistic venues throughout the world, including the United Kingdom, Italy, Germany, North America, South Africa and Kenya. Her full collection is to be released in 2016 through flipped eye. In 2011, Shire released Teaching My Mother How To Give Birth, a poetry pamphlet published by flipped eye. As of 2015, she primarily resides in London Shire has a Bachelor of Arts in Creative Writing. She immigrated to the United Kingdom at the age of one. Shire was born in 1988 in Kenya to Somali parents.
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