Alycia Pirmohamed in conversation with Nina Mingya Powles
Daunt Books83 Marylebone High Street
Tomorrow · 18:30 · £6
About this event
As a young Muslim woman, Alycia Pirmohamed grew up with her body as racialised and her faith as seemingly dangerous. Her affinity for the natural world – the mountains, elk, and pines of her childhood – conflicted with feelings that she was unwelcome in these landscapes. By contrast, the stories of her parents’ homeland – the monsoon winds, red clay roads, and abundant korosho trees – felt painfully distant. Across interrelated pieces that travel from Midwestern Canada to East Africa, the Pacific Northwest to the British Isles, the award-winning poet traces the legacies of migration and memory, examining the idea of homeland and the mythmaking it demands. Winner of the Nan Shepherd Prize, Shorelines asks what it means to carry hidden histories across borders and generations, and how our choices, our actions and the ways we build community shape who we become. Joining Alycia in discussion is New Zealand–born poet and essayist, Nina Mingya Powles . Nina is the author of Small Bodies of Water and In the Hollow of the Wave .
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