"I wrote the poem for them, for my family and for anyone who has experienced or lived around grief and trauma in that way."
— Warsan Shire

January 1, 1970

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On what spurred her to write the poem “Conversations about Home (at the Deportation Centre)” in “Poets speak out for refugees: 'No one leaves home, unless home is the mouth of a shark'” in The Guardian (2015 Sep 16)