Poetry
About the Book
Another Way to Split Water is a collection that has been evolving over many years. It is a book that captures many different versions of who the poet is now and who she has been formerly. The work within these pages is an homage to family – to how identity reforms and transforms throughout generations, through stories told and retold, imagined and reimagined. Perhaps most strikingly, this collection employs figurations of the natural world to reflect on themes of language, distance, migration, belonging, faith, grief, and intimacy.
The Author
Alycia Pirmohamed
Alycia Pirmohamed is a Canadian-born poet based in the UK. She is the author of the pamphlets Hinge and Faces that Fled the Wind. She is the co-founder of the Scottish BAME Writers Network and is currently a postdoctoral Creative Writing Fellow at the University of Liverpool, where she is working with the Ledbury Poetry Critics programme. Previously, she received an MFA from the University of Oregon and a PhD from the University of Edinburgh. In 2020, Alycia won the Edwin Morgan Poetry Award and received a Pushcart Prize.You may also like…
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