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Kahdija Rouf

is a clinical psychologist and writer, with a growing interest in the arts and mental wellbeing. She has been working in the NHS since 1991. She also has an MA in Poetry from Manchester Metropolitan University. Her poetry has been published in Orbis, Six Seasons Review, Sarasvati and she is honoured to be included in the NHS poetry anthology, These Are The Hands, edited by Katie Amiel and Deborah Alma (2020). Her poem Tacet recently won joint second prize in the health professional’s category of The Hippocrates Prize for Poetry and Medicine, and her pamphlet House Work was published on International Women’s Day 2022 by Fair Acre Press and is available here.

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    Seawort, marram grass, a length of rusted metal chain

    Khadija Rouf reviews Notes on Water by Amanda Dalton (Smith|Doorstop, 2022)
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    A flower blossoming out of the hole in my face

    Khadija Rouf reviews Bless the Daughter Raised by a Voice in Her Head by Warsan Shire (Chatto & Windus with Flipped Eye, 2022)
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    Three pamphlets: Martin Figura, Leontia Flynn and Naush Sabah

    Khadija Rouf reviews My Name is Mercy by Martin Figura (Fair Acre, 2021), Hilary Menos reviews Nina Simone is Singing by Leontia Flynn (Mariscat Press, 2021), and Mat Riches reviews Litanies by Naush Sabah (Guillemot, 2021)
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    Do words help?

    Consultant Clinical Psychologist and poet Khadija Rouf explores how poetry can be used to heal trauma
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