Poetry

 

Suhaiymah’s poetry is best read through her debut poetry collection, Postcolonial Banter (Verve Poetry Press, 2019). She has toured with this book across the UK and it can be purchased here.

“Suhaiymah’s courage to challenge the dictatorship of prevailing orthodoxy in our political moment inspires and liberates all who read her work.” - Lowkey

Performances

This is Not a Humanising Poem, 2017.

Performed at the Final of the National Roundhouse poetry slam, gaining 2 million views online.

British Values, 2018.

Performed at an even hosted by the Runnymede Trust and the Institute of Historical Research.

Bacon, Banknotes, Benjamins, 2019.

Written as a commission for Inua Ellams’ RAP Party with the theme “the future”.

Funeral of the “Authentic” Muslim woman, 2017.

Performed and written for TEDxBrum.

A Story for Ourselves, This Time, 2018.

Filmed and produced by TWO-BROWNGIRLS.

Poetry set including four poems, 2022.

Young Identity, Manchester.

The Vocabulary of Neglect, 2021.

Commissioned by Doctors within Borders: a networking initiative co-ordinated by researchers at Lancaster University and the University of Glasgow.

Where is my History?, 2021.

From Postcolonial Banter, performed at the Stuart Hall Foundation #Reconstructionwork event tiled, ‘Can the museum be decolonised?’

Breathlessness is not a momentary condition, 2020.

Commissioned by The Centre for Research on Race and Law at Birkbeck School of Law as part of their curated artist response to Covid-19 and BLM.

Islamophobia 101, 2018.

Commission for MEND.

P P P Prevent, 2019.

At Lowkey’s album launch.

“Paki”, 2018.

An Island of Sirens, 2020.

Illustrated by Alaa Alsaraji.

In response to Ofsted announcing they would begin asking Muslim girls why they wore their scarves at school in 2017.

The most British of the British queues, 2020.

Written for London’s Community Kitchen.

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