Debut poetry collection
Memoona Ahmed’s (2018, Experimental Psychology) debut poetry collection once-joined pieces is聽set to be released in April 2023 with Bite Poetry Press. The collection is a coming-of-age story, exploring the fragility of childhood, identity and loss.
Memoona writes from a frank and vulnerable place on the painful realisation of fragmentation, drawing together her experiences in fractured shards of identity. This collection will take you on a journey of turmoil and acceptance: of fearing what lies within the dark places and finding out. Across the horizons of youth and young adulthood, she documents a searing search for wholeness 鈥� the healing of what has passed and the raging ocean of what is to come.
Memoona Ahmed is a young British-Pakistani poet and writer. Her work focuses on her multifaceted experience with adversity, mental illness and identity. She has performed at award-winning open mic 鈥榊es We Cant鈥� and at the Oxford Poetry Library. Following a published section in the Word Association鈥檚 2020 anthology Words to Live By (Bite Poetry Press), Memoona was a mentee on the 2022 Word Association poetry mentorship. She performed two sets at the 2022 Cheltenham Literature Festival.
While at Univ, she won the 鈥溾�� competition. The competition was organised by (1979, English) 鈥� novelist and inaugural Visitor in the Creative Arts at Univ 鈥� in conjunction with Boldwood Books.
You can find out more and pre-order once-joined pieces .
Published: 14 March 2023