Shorelines

August’s Book of the Month was Alycia Pirmohamed’s ‘Shorelines: Memory, migration and the selves we become’ — a book that is its own body of water, writes Aileen Angsutorn Lees. Shorelines is the highly anticipated non-fiction debut from award-winning poet Alycia Pirmohamed. It won the 2023 Nan Shepherd Prize, awarded to underrepresented nature writing. But this […]

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