Pavilion Poetry
2 total works
Poetry Book Society Recommendation, Summer 2018.
Is nowhere a place we can
get closer to? In her compelling second collection, Alice Miller tackles the
circularity of thought, the company of the dead, and the lure of alternative futures.
These poems rip into pockets of histories, trying to change facts and voices,
searching for the word’s version of music’s home key. They dare you to visit,
through a series of cities, the futures we never let happen.
Is nowhere a place we can
get closer to? In her compelling second collection, Alice Miller tackles the
circularity of thought, the company of the dead, and the lure of alternative futures.
These poems rip into pockets of histories, trying to change facts and voices,
searching for the word’s version of music’s home key. They dare you to visit,
through a series of cities, the futures we never let happen.
Longlisted for the Laurel Prize 2022
What Fire is about how to continue as catastrophe crawls in, when the climate crisis has its grip on us all, the internet has been shut down, and the buildings are burning up. What happens when the philosophers never arrive? What songs are still worth singing? In her third collection, Alice Miller takes a fierce, unflinching look at the world we live in, at what we have made, and whether it is possible to change.
What Fire is about how to continue as catastrophe crawls in, when the climate crisis has its grip on us all, the internet has been shut down, and the buildings are burning up. What happens when the philosophers never arrive? What songs are still worth singing? In her third collection, Alice Miller takes a fierce, unflinching look at the world we live in, at what we have made, and whether it is possible to change.