UGLY

Animated paintings bring to life Warsan Shire's poem "Ugly", read by the poet, about a daughter shaped by displacement and survival.

Warsan Shire's searing poem given vivid, painterly animated form.

'UGLY' released for World Refugee Day 2019. A collaboration with painter Melissa Kitty Jarram. Poem by the incredible Warsan Shire. Audio excerpt courtesy of Penguin Random House from 'Teaching My Mother How to Give Birt

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