Another Way to Split Water

'Pirmohamed writes with a flow which is rarely interrupted. She has a fine ear for the musicality in words and knows exactly where a line should turn'

-- Susan Mansfield * The Scotsman *

'Pirmohamed’s achievements speak for themselves ... each poem is crafted, each word perfectly placed, flowing into one another. Dreamlike, brimming with ideas, it’s a collection that engulfs you, invites you to read more, to discover new jewels on each read'

-- Heather McDaid * The Skinny *

'In Another Way to Split Water a reader gets to taste arrival before arrival, a form of tenderness that refracts: "an inherited vanishing/through the slit of a dream"'

-- Bhanu Kapil

'Pirmohamed is an immensely gifted poet'

-- Eduardo C. Corral

'An electric, taut, and glimmering achievement'

-- Aria Aber

'You will want to map the navigations of these poems. You will be compelled to orbit their magnetic and inimitable oscillations'

-- Shivanee Ramlochan

'[Another Way to Split Water] inspired me so much. So many things I will think about differently now, from nature to form'

-- Tice Cin, author of Keeping the House

'[Pirmohamed's] language flows in elegant, mysterious ways, telling tales of heritage, history and belonging.'

-- Toni Velikova, Scottish Poetry Library

'An extraordinary collection... it's one that I'm very much looking forward to returning to'

* Glass Bookshop Radio *

'Another Way to Split Water is an homage to family, the natural world, and storytelling'

-- Rebecca Mangra * Room Magazine *

'[a] lyrical exploration of stories told and retold, ancestral memories reformed and transformed, and the imagined and reimagined'

-- Hari Alluri * Massy Arts *

'Lyrical and achingly beautiful... Another Way to Split Water is shot through with love, beauty, and deeply tender moments that live on far beyond the page.'

-- Roshni Gallagher * Gutter Magazine *

'The poems in this book draw you in with their incredibly vivid imagery of wilderness and water'

* Fourteen Poems magazine *

'Alycia Pirmohamed's Another Way to Split Water is affecting, refined, and elusive in its invocations of environmentalism, circumventing cliché through sprezzatura'

* Raymound Souster Award Panel (Shortlisted, 2023) *

'I'm both struck and charmed by the slow progressions of lyric observation and philosophical inquiry throughout... Another Way to Split Water'

-- Rob McLellan

'Pirmohamed’s writing evokes tender emotions within readers by bringing a voice to those who search for a sense of identity and belonging in multiple places at the same time ... To read her book is to give form to the unappeased diasporic yearning that we continue to come to terms with'

-- Michelle Lu * Surging Tide Magazine *

'Rich, vulnerable and multi-layered, the poems engage with the subject’s relation to water environments in a climactically and politically turbulent world'

* Poetry School *

'A long love letter to not just water that takes a multitude of shapes, but also to grief, prayer, girlhood, wind, womanhood, Allah, elks, longing, and departures... The reader's bonding to these poems, in many moments, is meditative, and almost transcendent' 

* Wasafiri Magazine *

'Her narrative is dynamic, a vibrant act of creating, undoing, transforming, and becoming. As you move through the book, the cyclical images of nature, gentle ebb and flow of rivers, rise and fall of storms, reflections of childhood and ruminations on the future, contribute to an emblematic growth of character and voice' 

* Outcrop Poetry *

'Alycia Pirmohamed’s Another Way to Split Water is an exciting debut that explores connections between landscape, language and the body in a series of lyrical poems'

* The Saltire Socie