Half the Human Race by Susan Utting Josep Lluís Aguiló and Warsan Shire

and Warsan Shire

This epigrammatic sequence is based on the ekphrastic graffiti-poems inscribed between the 8th and 10th centuries at a royal pleasure palace and fortress in Sri Lanka

a hooved and humped chorus of watery sages

their power to move comes from their reticence

' - Elaine Feinstein

Half the Human Race by Susan Utting Josep Lluís Aguiló and Warsan ShireA collection of new and selected previously published poems reflecting and developing the theme of women. Half the Human Race includes poems from three previous collections, alongside new work reflecting and developing earlier themes of the lives of women, particularly those who are too often overlooked, unseen, hidden, or silenced women made to feel sometimes we take up too much room. There is loss and struggle here: the pain of miscarriage, the