Warda Yassin is an award-winning British-born Somali poet and secondary-school teacher based in Sheffield. She was a winner of The New Poets Prize 2018 for her debut pamphlet ‘Tea with Cardamom’ (The Poetry Business 2019) and joint winner of the Women Poets’ Prize 2020. Her poetry has been published in The North, Magma and Oxford Poetry, and anthologised in Verse Matters (Valley Press), Introduction X (Smith|Doorstop) and Halfway Smile and Surfing the Twilight (Hive).
is a granite heart, heavy inside shoulders that recoil at the sight of a child’s sadness. In the staffroom, she is a geographer tallying a Richter scale of Prevent comments, like when Stacey said
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