I cannot be good until you say it by Sanah Ahsan (Bloomsbury) Karen McCarthy Woolf Learning that your mind and

Learning that your mind and body have been taken hostage is one thing

Reading this collection is like pressing your ear to the ground to hear the orchestra of the world: alive with buzzing hum and beating wing

Published 17th October 2024

“Watching the new surge of Deaf poets take on the world of BSL

I cannot be good until you say it by Sanah Ahsan (Bloomsbury) Karen McCarthy Woolf Learning that your mind andIntricately weaving Quranic verse, psychology, and the hip hop soundtrack of their childhood, Sanah's poems reach for divinity in the body; an archive that refuses erasure. These poems traverse unruly emotional and physical landscapes, Whiteness, islamophobia, homophobia, intergenerational suffering, and the politics of therapeutic processes. In these pages, belief and unbelief, goodness and badness, the material and spiritual are intertwined,