Khadija Rouf

Mid blue background with the word Water in black sans serif text

Seawort, marram grass, a length of rusted metal chain

Khadija Rouf reviews Notes on Water by Amanda Dalton (Smith|Doorstop, 2022)

Could be a woodcut, a black and white graphic of o woman's face, her chin is rising in her hand.

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)

three book covers in a fan shape, one has blue and grey vertical stripes, one has a pattern of hexagonal cells a bit like a hive with a black and white bee on it, one is green with a painting of a mother and daughter

Three pamphlets: Erica Gillingham, Stephen Payne and Khadija Rouf

Rachael Matthews reviews The Human Body is a Hive by Erica Gillingham, Richie McCaffery reviews The Wax Argument by Steven Payne, and Bruno Cooke reviews House Work by Khadija Rouf

Three pamphlet covers arranged in a fan shape, one has a health worker in PPE on a blue background, one is yellow with black text running down the centre of the page and one is half white with purple text , the other half has what may be a woodcut in what may be ethnic patterns.

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)

Composite picture of Hippocrates, the Hippocratic oath and the Rod of Asclepius

Do words help?

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