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Another Way to Split Water

Another Way to Split Water is the debut poetry collection by Canadian-born, Scotland-based poet Alycia Pirmohamed.

Alycia Pirmohamed

The cover of Alycia Pirmohamed's poetry book Another Way to Split Water, which features a wavy blue graphic on the left side and a plain white background on the right side.

In Alycia Pirmohamed's debut collection,Another Way to Split Water, a woman's body expands and contracts across the page, fog uncoils at the fringes of a forest, and water in all its forms cascades into metaphors of longing and separation just as often as it signals inheritance, revivaland recuperation. Language unfolds into unforgettable and arresting imagery, offering a map toward self-understanding that is deeply rooted in place.

These poems are a lyrical exploration of how ancestral memory reforms and transforms throughout generations, through stories told and retold, imagined and reimagined. It is a meditation on womanhood, belonging, faith, intimacyand the natural world. (FromBirlinnLtd.)

Another Way To Split Waterfeatures the collection of poems thatwon the 2019 CBC Poetry Prize:Love Poem With Elk and Punctuation,Prairie StormandTasbih.

Alycia Pirmohamed is a Canadian-born poet based in Scotland. She is the author of the chapbooksHinge and Faces that Fled the Wind, and the collaborative essay Second Memory, which was co-authored with Pratyusha.

She is the co-founder of the Scottish BPOC Writers Network, a co-organiser of the Ledbury Poetry Critics Program, and currently teaches on the MSt. Creative Writing at the University of Cambridge. Alycia has held post-doctoral positions at the University of Edinburgh and at the University of Liverpool, and she received an MFA from the University of Oregon and a PhD from the University of Edinburgh.

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