Another Way to Split Water
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Release date: 01 Sep 2022 & 15 Nov 2022
Another Way to Split Water 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.
this too is a glistening
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Bitter Melon 苦瓜 2024
“Lineage is a mode of intense proximity in this extraordinary collaboration between Alycia Pirmohamed, Pratyusha, Nina Mingya Powles and Jessica J Lee. How do we experience what’s planted for us, elsewhere? this too is a glistening proposes the diasporic body as both cyanotype and vestige, a ‘wet stitch.’ I was deeply moved.”
– BHANU KAPIL
Second Memory
Guillemot Press 2021
Second Memory is a collaborative pamphlet written by Pratyusha and Alycia Pirmohamed that traces and entwines their ancestral histories. Bringing together both creative and theoretical approaches, their work slips between genres – at times personal essay, at times prose-poetry – and ghosts across intergenerational trauma, shadowy memories, dreams, and fraught landscapes. Epistolary dialogue underpins the intimacy of the writing, weaving together two voices, at once illusory and tactile.
Hinge
Poetry Book Society Summer 2020 Pamphlet Choice
ignitionpress 2020
“The poems in Hinge offer a new map for a land where both heartbreak and delight reside, even if, as the speaker notes, ‘planting my palms together has never felt like blossoming up the side of a mountain…’ In the elegant build and stretch of Pirmohamed’s poetry, we are given exquisite possibilities for language and a green longing, all while she manages to stack lyricism and light in sonically surprising ways.”
– AIMEE NEZHUKUMATATHIL
Space is the wound these poems seek to heal, the lyric for which they are continually and beautifully searching.
– ISABELLE THOMPSON, for Sphix
Faces that Fled the Wind
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Winner of the 2018 BOAAT Chapbook Prize,
selected by Camille Rankine
“Faces that Fled the Wind leads us into a lush archipelago of spiritual and ecological longing. With a gorgeous lyricism, these poems breathe life in a cinematic evocation of languages lost, distances crossed, and splintered bodies that are pieced back together in the dark, archetypal woods of an imagined motherland. Alycia Pirmohamed assuredly weaves together stories that shimmer with a “glaucous bloom,” narratives of migration and the lingering wounds they leave behind on the page.”
– JAY G YING