I cannot be good until you say it by Sanah Ahsan (Bloomsbury) Karen McCarthy Woolf Published 17th October 2024

Published 17th October 2024

Teresa Godfrey knows that it is details that bring meaning to moments and she describes them in elegant

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

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I cannot be good until you say it by Sanah Ahsan (Bloomsbury) Karen McCarthy Woolf Published 17th October 2024Intricately 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,