Episode 47: Alycia Pirmohamed

This week on the pod, Makda sits down with poet Alycia Pirmohamed to discuss her debut poetry collection ANOTHER WAY TO SPLIT WATER. They chat about online poetry forums, the trickiness of titles, writing in nature, and much more.

Alycia Pirmohamed is a Canadian-born poet based in Scotland. She is the author of Another Way to Split Water, the chapbooks Hinge and Faces that Fled the Wind, and the collaborative essay Second Memory, which was co-authored with Pratyusha. Alycia received an MFA from the University of Oregon and a PhD from the University of Edinburgh. She is the recipient of a Pushcart Prize, the 2019 CBC Poetry Prize, and the Edwin Morgan Poetry Award.

You can order ANOTHER WAY TO SPLIT WATER here.

Find Alycia on Twitter @a_pirmohamed; on Instagram @alyciap_; or on her website.

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