Dr. Sanah Ahsan is an award-winning poet, writer, clinical psychologist and educator who works in the cracks, revering our messy emotional landscapes, and the wild edges of falling apart.
Sanah's psychological practice is rooted in liberation and community psychology, drawing on embodiment, therapeutics and poetics as life-affirming practices, to support racialised and marginalised people. Their published research is on the deconstruction of whiteness within UK clinical psychology.
Sanah’s Debut Poetry Collection
I Cannot Be Good Until You Say It
The much-anticipated debut collection by the winner of the Outspoken Performance Poetry Prize: a tender meditation on queerness and Islam
Bloomsbury 14th March 2024
​"Dissolving whatever boundaries would wall us off from love, Ahsan finds a way to let it all be holy"
Victoria Adukwei-Bulley
"When I speak of the word "sacred", Sanah Ahsan's I cannot be good until you say it, will forever instantly spring to mind... A masterpiece - an honour to have read this book, I am forever changed after reading its beauty"
Nikita Gill
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"Innovative and deeply compassionate... multilingual verse suffused with a vital musicality and a palpable tenderness, Ahsan calls poetry into prayer and evokes a faith safe enough to be mothered by"
Mary Jean Chan
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"Liberation is at the nucleus of every page of Sanah Ahsan's rousing debut"
Kaveh Akbar
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"Dexterous, varied, erotic, filled with rage, worships and wonder... I am electrified"
Pádraig Ó Tuama
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“To begin by always thinking of love as an action rather than a feeling”
bell hooks, all about love