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Radio 3,14 Dec 2021,14 mins

SeriesInto the Wild

Meditation on Landscape, Bodies and Writing

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Canadian-born poet Alycia Pirmohamed, based in Scotland, explores ecological poetry in the context of brown women’s bodies – bodies that, in the western world, are often perceived as not belonging in, or displaced from, rural landscapes and the wider natural world. She begins to read poems outdoors in the green spaces of Edinburgh, and reflects.

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