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Mona Arshi

Mona Arshi worked as a human rights lawyer at Liberty before she started writing poetry. Her debut collection Small Hands won the Forward Prize for best first collection in 2015. Mona’s second collection Dear Big Gods was published in 2019 by Liverpool University Press. Her debut novel will be published in 2021.

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    Shifting Lines

    New poetry emerges from the landscape

    The shifting nature of the North Norfolk coast is evoked through the subtle choreography of voice, natural sounds, video, photography and sensor data in this new multimedia poetry collection by Mona Arshi, in collaboration with sound artist Peter Cusack and photographer Matthew Usher.

    Mona Arshi

    Mona Arshi worked as a human rights lawyer at Liberty before she started writing poetry.…

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