NOT THIS TENDER

63pp., paperback, Dryad Press, Cape Town, 2025

ISBN: 9781037044656

Poems

“A conjuring voice and a poetry of longing.” Gabeba Baderoon

Sarah Uheida is a Libyan-born poet and essayist, living in Cape Town.  She was the recipient of the Miles Morland Foundation Writing Scholarship and the 2020 Dan Veach Prize for Young Poets. Sarah’s poetry and lyric essays have been published in various anthologies, including We Call to the Eye & the Night and Relations: An anthology of African and diaspora voices, as well as in journals such as New Contrast, The Atlanta Review, fresh.ink, Plume and Every Day Fiction. Not This Tender is her debut collection.