Learning that your mind and body have been taken hostage is one thing
but a multitude of other forms are used with intelligent grace…I know that it is the verve of Caley’s writing I will be re-reading
With its ‘radical simplicity and seriousness of purpose
and editor Karen McCarthy Woolf
“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,