Poetry Mentoring
Sanah is a recipient of the Outspoken Poetry Performance Prize, and has been shortlisted for the Queen Mary Wasafiri New Writing Prize, White Review Poetry Prize, Bridport Poetry Prize, Frontier Poetry Prize and longlisted for the National Poetry Competition. They are a member of The Racial Imaginary Institute led by Claudia Rankine, and alumni of Southbank’s New Poet’s Collective and BBC Words First. Their poetry has been published or is forthcoming in The Poetry Review, Rialto, The London Magazine, Poetry Wales, Propel, Wasafiri, The White Review, Ink Sweat & Tears, 14 Poems amongst others, and anthologised by several presses, including Pan-Macmillan. Sanah’s poems have been featured on Channel 4 and BBC 4, and reviewed by The Guardian as "an exhilarating declaration of love and an invocation to bare the soul.”
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Sanah Ahsan’s debut is alive with a want and restlessness that remakes the “You” of desire – and faith – again and again.”
Sanah’s poetry collection:
I Cannot Be Good (Until you say it)
Intricately weaving Quranic verse, psychology, and the hip-hop soundtrack of their childhood, Sanah's reach for divinity in the queer body; an archive that refuses erasure.
“Dexterous, varied, erotic, filled with rage, worships and wonder ... I am electrified. If devotional poetry comes from the heart, then Ahsan’s language is a scalpel fit for such surgery.”
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A daring debut collection from Sanah Ahsan. We are guided through the complexities of just being. Whether relating to family, religion or sexuality, we are held in hope.. these poems speak to a part of our everyday lives.”