Water Poetics: in Conversation with Alycia Pirmohamed

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  • Date and time: Thursday 22 February 2024, 5pm to 7pm
  • Location: In-person only
    P/L/002 , School of Physics, Engineering and Technology Building, Campus West, University of York (Map)
  • Audience: Open to the public
  • Admission: Free admission, booking required

Event details

Join us for a one-off Q&A with Alycia in which we think about ‘What … it means to belong somewhere or to something’, ‘the consequences of being decentred, perceived as unfamiliar or as a stranger to place’, and the slippages between ecopoetry and nature writing. 

About the speaker

Alycia Pirmohamed

Dr Alycia Pirmohamed is a Canadian-born poet based in Scotland. She is the author of Another Way to Split Water, as well as the pamphlets Hinge and Faces that Fled the Wind, and the collaborative essay Second Memory, which was co-authored with Pratyusha. Her latest book is an edited collection of nature writing by women and nonbinary writers of colour titled Our Time is a Garden. 

Contact

Ezra Horbury