Reposted by Alycia PirmohamedDoug Johnstone @dougjohnstone.bsky.social · 11/09/2026I’m not a huge fan of hardbacks tbh, but I love all four of these writers, so couldn’t wait. Picked up, as usual, at my local indie @portybooks.bsky.social. @alycia.bsky.social @jdcrawf.bsky.social 282
Reposted by Alycia PirmohamedCaught by the River @caughtbytheriver.bsky.social · 11/09/2026'Her voice rivers between the loud and the quiet.' August’s Book of the Month was @alycia.bsky.social’s ‘Shorelines: Memory, migration and the selves we become’ (@canongate.co.uk) — a book that is its own body of water, writes Aileen Angsutorn Lees www.caughtbytheriver.net/2026/09/shor... 085
Reposted by Alycia PirmohamedThe Skinny @theskinnymag.bsky.social · 12/08/2026Poet Alycia Pirmohamed turns to prose in her debut nonfiction book SHORELINES – an exquisite memoir that resists the demands of the genre Out August 13 via @canongate.co.uk – read our ★★★★★ review below www.theskinny.co.uk/books/book-r... @alycia.bsky.socialtheskinny.co.ukShorelines by Alycia Pirmohamed: book review – The SkinnyPoet Alycia Pirmohamed turns to prose in her debut nonfiction book, an exquisite memoir that resists the demands of the genre. 041
Reposted by Alycia PirmohamedCanongate @canongate.co.uk · 13/08/2026Happy Publication Day! A massive congratulations to all our authors publishing today: Melissa Hogenboom, Natsuo Kirino, Gemma Cairney, Anna Holmes, @alycia.bsky.social & Jess Kidd! Order your copies now at your fav local bookshop, or online! uk.bookshop.org/lists/out-to... 1194
Reposted by Alycia PirmohamedCaught by the River @caughtbytheriver.bsky.social · 26/08/2026Belonging as Burden: In August's Book of the Month interview, @alycia.bsky.social speaks to Tallulah Brennan about embodied experiences of place, writing against the lone explorer, and the interrelation between the natural world and empire www.caughtbytheriver.net/2026/08/belo... 042
Reposted by Alycia PirmohamedWasafiri Magazine @wasafirimag.bsky.social · 06/08/2026New on our website: Read an exclusive extract from SHORELINES: MEMORY, MIGRATION AND THE SELVES WE BECOME (@canongate.co.uk), the Nan Shepherd prize-winning debut nonfiction book by @alycia.bsky.social. buff.ly/mkaeKCw 074
Reposted by Alycia PirmohamedPortobello Literary @portyliterary.bsky.social · 14/07/2026So thrilled to get my copies of Q is for Garden by @jennychambles.bsky.social, With My Own Hand by @ashleydouglas.bsky.social, Shorelines by @alycia.bsky.social and the proof of The Shape of Monsters by @clhellisen.bsky.social! 272
Alycia Pirmohamed @alycia.bsky.social · 15/04/2026I hope that art can change the world, or ask us to change the word - and that we listen. 062
Alycia Pirmohamed @alycia.bsky.social · 24/02/2026Emergency Dream by @pollyrowena.bsky.social is so, so good. The book I needed to read, the book that held me ❤️ 162
Reposted by Alycia PirmohamedPoetry in Aldeburgh Festival @poetryinaldeburgh.bsky.social · 19/02/2026We are so excited to be on Bluesky! This year’s festival is from the 5th-8th November. Will we see you there? With huge thanks to Vici MacDonald and Andrew Lindesay for creating our beautiful logo 🌊 💛 #newlogo #poetry #writing #poetryfestival #suffolk 03611
Alycia Pirmohamed @alycia.bsky.social · 18/02/2026in the midst of it all, I find my ideas of “perfection” changing, my need to be “perfect” disappearing. perfect body (whatever that is), perfect cv, perfect writing, perfect tone, perfectly curated persona. all the “perfect” interruptions to a really and truly and unapologetically lived life 080
Alycia Pirmohamed @alycia.bsky.social · 17/02/2026I haven’t shared too much poetry recently - I’ve learned that I’m not someone who writes very much during crisis, amidst grief. but I have a new one, one of my only new ones, in @aaww-nyc.bsky.social’s gorgeous new folio edited by Megan Pinto and Kiran Bath 🩷 aaww.org/then-the-lak...aaww.orgThen the Lake Shiftsthe peaks of this memory sharpen 2175
Reposted by Alycia PirmohamedSaul Staniforth @saulstaniforth.bsky.social · 15/02/2026Phillips "This is not a country where people get thrown in jail for things they say" @zackpolanski.bsky.social points out 2,700 people have been arrested for holding signs And well done to Zack for challenging Phillips smear that 'from the river to the sea, Palestine will be free' is antisemitic 691339421
Alycia Pirmohamed @alycia.bsky.social · 03/02/2026have you found any new-to-you poets recently? maybe through a literary journal? maybe one who doesn’t have a full length book out yet? I would love love love to be introduced to some new writing 7197
Alycia Pirmohamed @alycia.bsky.social · 27/01/2026I can’t touch pen to paper without it taking the form of grief, grief, grief. 190
Reposted by Alycia PirmohamedNatalia Cecire @ncecire.bsky.social · 22/01/2026The UK government is proposing radical and punitive changes to settlement rules. This is settlement, not citizenship. The consultation is open until 12 February; please respond to it and oppose these evil proposals. Amnesty have a good guide: www.amnesty.org.uk/resources/gu...amnesty.org.ukGuidance for responding to 'A Fairer Pathway to Settlement' consultationWe are Amnesty International UK. We are ordinary people from across the world standing up for humanity and human rights. 2215227
Alycia Pirmohamed @alycia.bsky.social · 13/01/2026writing poetry for yourself in the dark hours of the morning >>>>>>> 080
Alycia Pirmohamed @alycia.bsky.social · 27/12/2025The act of pretending I’m not sad and filled with grief over the holidays, because it doesn’t fit in with everyone’s generally festive moods 180
Alycia Pirmohamed @alycia.bsky.social · 15/12/2025only able to read short things at the moment - any favourite short stories? or short story collections? 🌱 640
Alycia Pirmohamed @alycia.bsky.social · 15/12/2025my latest newsletter – on how grief has changed how I process information, and how diaries/notebooks have become a home for all my peripheral, fragmented thoughts elsewheres.substack.com/p/ephemera-o...elsewheres.substack.comephemera of becominggrief is a living notebook 031
Alycia Pirmohamed @alycia.bsky.social · 08/12/2025end of year “best book” lists are coming out, so just a little reminder that you and you books are valuable, whether or not you’re on them 💛 082
Reposted by Alycia PirmohamedBetter Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 08/12/2025Scientists now believe that the human brain--a magic goo for worrying--can also be used to do other things 605346914
Reposted by Alycia PirmohamedNoreen Masud @noreenmasud.bsky.social · 08/12/2025it's gutting to see access and widening participation initiatives being binned across the university sector. ELCE here at Bristol, Essex Pathways here. nothing pushes my personal, visceral buttons like the idea of denying academic study to someone whose life it could change 19245
Reposted by Alycia PirmohamedSídhe Press @sidhepress.bsky.social · 05/12/2025Only a few days to go! Get your tickets, Berliners! 021
Alycia Pirmohamed @alycia.bsky.social · 05/12/2025If you donate £10 or more to this fundraiser by @divyampersaud.com, I'll send you a signed copy of Another Way to Split Water - will post anywhere 💙 (3 copies available - just msg me with a screenshot) 2811
Reposted by Alycia PirmohamedSídhe Press @sidhepress.bsky.social · 05/12/2025It´s Friday, it's raining- and most of us have a safe place to stay, away from the rain and the cold. Palestinians do not have this luxury, the situation is catastrophic and wishing it away won´t help. But you can help by sharing and donating, you can offer real, tangible help. Please do. 057
Alycia Pirmohamed @alycia.bsky.social · 04/12/2025to be a writer is to want to be known and unknown, public and private, searchable and imperceptible, visible and hidden both 040
Reposted by Alycia PirmohamedJeremy Noel-Tod @jntod.bsky.social · 03/12/2025c.orgSign the PetitionAllow transgender women and girls back into GirlGuiding UK 13724
Reposted by Alycia PirmohamedThe Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities @iashedinburgh.bsky.social · 02/12/2025Applications are now open for 2026-27 Fellowships at IASH! Apply via the portal on our website: www.iash.ed.ac.uk/application-... This round (for visits between August 2026 and July 2027) closes on 27 Feb for mid-career/senior scholars, and on 24 Apr for postdoctoral/early-career researchers.iash.ed.ac.ukApplication form | IASH 1118
Alycia Pirmohamed @alycia.bsky.social · 02/12/2025what are some poetry journals people are loving these days? want to read some new work by poets I don't know yet 6183
Reposted by Alycia PirmohamedJane Shi | 皮爬高 echolalia echolalia is out now @pipagaopoetry.bsky.social · 26/11/2025a year and 11 months of Crips for eSims for Gaza ;-; waiting for you to see this post, Alice! T_T #ConnectingGaza bit.ly/eSimsRUsbit.lyCrips for eSims for GazaCrips for eSims for Gaza is a collaboration between Jane Shi, Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha, and Alice Wong. 17974
Alycia Pirmohamed @alycia.bsky.social · 26/11/2025my debut nonfiction book comes out in less than a year, which is kind of freaking me out 🌝 if anyone knows where to pitch interviews or essays related to it, or has experiences to share, please let me know I'm barely functioning lately & this added layer of being perceived is really quite the trip 103310
Alycia Pirmohamed @alycia.bsky.social · 22/11/2025missing home, the idea of home, multiple homes, the home of my past self 0130
Alycia Pirmohamed @alycia.bsky.social · 17/11/2025“I try to forget violence. but isn’t art all about spectacle?” my recent poems, written in despair, while witnessing and losing & deep in darkness, circle questions of commodification & capitalism. this is a system that causes pain, thrives on our hurt & refuses to see even amidst all the scrolling 151
Alycia Pirmohamed @alycia.bsky.social · 29/10/2025thinking back to when I used to write poetry maybe clumsily, but with a real, untameable passion. every image, every sensation, was brand new. every line was a portal, even if just back to myself. the poems are possibly better now, but sometimes they feel empty, lacking in vigour, lacking in life. 041
Alycia Pirmohamed @alycia.bsky.social · 22/10/2025I've written a little bit about grief [spoiler, it's lonely and unbearable] in this kind of fragmentary short piece about waves. open.substack.com/pub/elsewher... 291
Reposted by Alycia PirmohamedFossil Free Books @fossilfreebooks.org · 28/05/2025We stand in solidarity with our trans siblings and are united in our anger at the Supreme Court ruling & EHRC update. Trans, non-binary and intersex people are facing exclusion from basic aspects of public life. Please read this thread that contains recommendations and calls to action. 210840
Alycia Pirmohamed @alycia.bsky.social · 26/05/2025I will never, ever understand people who put alignment with institutions and literary organisations before Gaza. Who trade silence for opportunity. Who publish so many words in their books but, when it comes down to it, truly say nothing at all. 0101
Reposted by Alycia PirmohamedThe Associated Press @apnews.com · 26/05/2025BREAKING: An Israeli airstrike on a school-turned-shelter has killed at least 25 Palestinians, mostly women and children, Gaza's Health Ministry said. The school was hit three times while people slept, setting their belongings ablaze, they added.bit.lyIsraeli strike on school-turned-shelter in Gaza kills 25, medics sayAn Israeli strike on a school-turned-shelter in the Gaza Strip has killed at least 25 people, mostly women and children, according to the territory’s Health Ministry. 15426322098
Reposted by Alycia PirmohamedPolly Atkin @pollyrowena.bsky.social · 25/05/2025It was a great and timely reminder that our published work is out in the world making essential connections, even if we don't see it. Amazing to think of those books travelling to Finland. Also to see my poetry being taught in good company with @alycia.bsky.social and @reshmaruia.bsky.social. 3133
Alycia Pirmohamed @alycia.bsky.social · 24/05/2025have an exciting meeting about my manuscript in progress next week - and suddenly everything about it feels real 🌱 2230
Alycia Pirmohamed @alycia.bsky.social · 21/04/2025trying to simultaneously (re)read 4 books at a time because I can't choose where to begin 3170
Reposted by Alycia PirmohamedKaylee 🏴🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈 🔜 BLFC @littlemacha.bsky.social · 18/04/2025Megathread of pro-trans petitions on Parliament’s petition website. If Labour suddenly gets hit with debates for a bunch of pro-trans petitions, maybe they’ll realise this issue isn’t going away and they’ve fucked up. I’ll add more as I find them. petition.parliament.uk/petitions/70... 5625412072
Reposted by Alycia PirmohamedLighthouse - Edinburgh's Radical Bookshop @lighthousebks.bsky.social · 16/04/2025No transphobic court ruling, no bigot in charge of NHS, no billionaire media can indefinitely hold back the fierce tides of love and joy and courage that is queer community and solidarity. These are the desperate gasps of a dying era, one we will survive. Love & solidarity, today and every day 🏳️⚧️ 416450
Reposted by Alycia PirmohamedGood Law Project @goodlawproject.org · 16/04/2025The Supreme Court sided with FWS. But it didn’t hear from a single trans person. This ruling sets a dangerous precedent and erases trans women from protections. It puts trans rights back 20 years. We won't stop fighting for trans rights 🏳️⚧️ 371027348
Reposted by Alycia PirmohamedFossil Free Books @fossilfreebooks.org · 16/04/2025Every climate justice writer belongs in their union. The Society of Authors claims to be committed to sustainability. But climate justice is about more than sustainable sources of paper – it’s about power. In calling for individual authors to hold their publishers to account, the SoA is… [1] 12814
