There is an impassioned strength to the vulnerability, a gentle fire glowing within this work. Saif beautifully combines the sweet minutiae of the mundane-life away from home, self-image, sweet treats baked by a mother-with the bitter rage of injustice, oppression, longing and loneliness. Nostalgic narrative is given a realistic sharpness. With a considered, insightful voice, this collection rings out bright and clear.

- Georgina Langford

Visiting Hours is a beautiful mediation on memory, desire, family and the body. Layered with fragility and tension, this is a collection threaded with simmering verse, reflecting on finding oneself and the pains of lost opportunity. Sidari is an exciting new voice.

- Michael Handrick

One thing I love about this fine debut pamphlet is how so many phrases in specific poems resonate with the universal theme of exile-exile from place, family, queer love, even from our own bodies: 'I remember growing up in the tensions-ridiculous / wickedness.' Throughout this moving pamphlet I get the sense that the desired recipients will never read it, but that hope and release is still achieved from 'the pitiless bounties of a letter that can never arrive' as 'inside my playdough body sits an unblinking witness'-and bearing its witness is what Visiting Hours thoroughly deserves.

- Simon Maddrell