Another Way to Split Water

<p><strong style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0)>Winner 2020 Pamet River Prize</strong></p><p> </p><p>In Alycia Pirmohamed's debut collection <em style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0)>Another Way to Split Water</em> 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 revival and recuperation. Language unfolds into unforgettable and arresting imagery offering a map toward self-understanding that is deeply rooted in place: the prairies and mountains of Alberta Canada the hills and gardens of Edinburgh Scotland and the coastlines of Dar es Salaam Tanzania. 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 intimacy and the natural world.</p><p><br></p>