The Way Out Starts At The Center

“The verses are often loose, almost improvised, often terribly vulnerable, building a world that is vast and lonely. In Sahal’s own words, Rimbaud ain’t got shit on him, he only had to deal with a season in hell, and our Poet has been through at least a hundred and twelve.”

Muireann Walsch

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Hakim Sahal is a Lausanne-based Swiss pedestrian, born at the tender age of 28 in January 2025. He has done various sort of jobs throughout his life, including but not limited to: train traffic controller, crepe cook, pedal boat renter, and signatures gatherer for a political campaign… This has informed his writing, which is obsessed with the lonely, yet erotic world of 21st century Switzerland.