http://www.bbc.com/culture/story/20160425-theres-more-to-warsan-shire-than-the-beyonc-video
?I tried to make a home out of you/But doors lead to trapped doors.? So begins the first interlude of Beyonc??s new ?visual album?. Released on 23 April with a special on HBO, Lemonade features 12 songs ? interspersed with words written by Somali-British poet Warsan Shire.
While the album has whipped up a social media frenzy over Beyonc??s lyrics, brimming with rage and accusations of infidelity, the quiet moments in between offer a thoughtful counterpoint. The words are those of Shire, a 27-year-old born in Kenya to Somali parents, who published her first pamphlet Teaching My Mother How to Give Birth in 2011 and went on to win the inaugural Brunel University African Poetry Prize in 2013.https://twitter.com/warsan_shire?lang=enHer first collection of poems comes out this year. I am going to purchase.
She's a great talent.
