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Tracing the Shoreline

Sat 14 Nov · 16:55

The Pleasance Edinburgh

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Tracing the Shoreline is set for 14 November 2026 at The Pleasance Edinburgh. Garry Mackenzie will present his collection Firth, which reflects on the fishing industry's history and ecological concerns. Alycia Pirmohamed will also read from her upcoming collection and discuss her memoir.

Garry Mackenzie will join us with Firth, a collection which reaches back into the deep geological past and forward into a troubled future of pollution and extinction. At the heart of Firth are poems following the boom and bust of the nineteenth century fishing industry and the ecological parable it presents. Alongside him, Alycia Pirmohamed will read poems from her upcoming collection, as well as discussing her memoir, Shorelines: Memory, Migration and the Selves We Become, which moves from lavender skies to lighthouses, from surefooted ideas to liminal spaces. Chaired through the ConVERSE Emerging Chairs Programme with the University of Edinburgh

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Tracing the Shoreline takes place on Saturday, 14 November 2026 at 16:55.

Tracing the Shoreline is held at The Pleasance Edinburgh in Edinburgh (60 Pleasance, Edinburgh South EH8 9TJ).

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