this too is a glistening

By Pratyusha, Jessica J. Lee, Alycia Pirmohamed & Nina Mingya Powles

Cover art by Pratyusha

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I walk along the ravines of my childhood until the sloping pines begin to fade into alpine scrub. I direct my gaze across time.
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In memory, the treeline is a shifting state.

Prose poem, nature diary, poetic inquiry — these paths converge in this too is a glistening, a tender experiment in collaborative writing created over the course of one weekend. Disrupting notions of genre and authorship, this is a tactile and immersive meditation on friendship, creativity, the body and the migrant self, writing against the backdrop of ongoing genocide and environmental degradation. 

“Lineage is a mode of intense proximity in this extraordinary collaboration [...] How do we experience what’s planted for us, elsewhere? this too is a glistening proposes the diasporic body as both cyanotype and vestige, a ‘wet stitch.’ I was deeply moved.” 
​— Bhanu Kapil


fieldnotes collective is an international collaborative nature writing project founded by Pratyusha, Alycia Pirmohamed, Jessica J. Lee and Nina Mingya Powles, based between London, Edinburgh and Berlin, whose creative practices intersect between poetry, nature writing, publishing and teaching. this too is a glistening was produced with support of funding from the Four Nations International Fund