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What Fire
Longlisted for the Laurel Prize 2022What 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.
Book Details
- Publisher: Pavilion Poetry
- Publish Date: Apr 19th, 2021
- Pages: 60
- Language: English
- Edition: undefined - undefined
- Dimensions: 7.30in - 4.60in - 0.10in - 0.30lb
- EAN: 9781800859623
- Categories: • Women Authors• Subjects & Themes - Animals & Nature• European - English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
About the Author
Miller, Alice: - Alice Miller is the author of three poetry collections and a novel. Her previous collection, Nowhere Nearer (Pavilion, 2018) was a Poetry Book Society Recommendation, and her novel about George Yeats, More Miracle than Bird (Tin House, 2020), was a New York Times Book Review summer selection. Born and raised in Aotearoa New Zealand, Alice lives in Berlin.
Praise for this book
For previous work: "These poems are genuinely unpredictable, a rare thing, and their momentary stances or voice-postures have about them an air of irrepressible fiat."
Vidyan Ravinthiran, Poetry Book SocietyFor previous work: "Miller has written a curious and searching book that elegantly balances themes of love, loss and remembrance. This slim volume of poetry is incredibly ambitious in scope."
Jack Solloway, The London Magazine"Miller is a poet of concept as much as rhythm and sound, who is unafraid to stand in the naked light of artistic insufficiency, and ask her questions, and leave behind her declarations of love and goodness."
Juliano Zaffino"More Miracle Than Bird will ring in my mind's ear for a long time, and I will return to its pages. A wonderful book!"
Jay Parini"Only a wildly gifted novelist could give us this terrific tale of Georgie Hyde-Lees and her some-time suitor, the much older poet W.B. Yeats. Written with superb emotional rightness."
Joan SilberFor previous work: "Alice Miller looks hard at history's terrifying straight lines, yet time and again turns to the obsessive, sometimes redemptive circlings of art. She knows that in a universe ruled by time and death, words can both rescue and destroy us, sometimes in a single utterance"
Bill ManhireFor previous work: "Alice Miller knows what is at stake in the infinitesimal, the split second, the infra-thin. The poems in her scintillating collection, Nowhere Nearer, make us aware of how precarious the earth's crust is, how treacherous the ambient oceans can be, and how ephemeral we ourselves are as we traverse great distances through the air."
Ranjit Hoskote"Alice Miller takes a critical lens to our current malaise, tackling the current decline of our climate and planet to the way technology has both advanced and stunted human civilizations. A collection which feels as if it's somehow speaking to us all."
Anthony Anaxagorou"Everyone has a hand in the fire, everyone is responsible for the flames that will come to 'each' town. Miller's poetry subtly calls to individual agency and what we stand to lose by making selfish choices. [...] What Fire is concerned with our capacity to change while examining the world on the point of a precipice. [...] The end is not the end, but a chance to start again."
Charlie Baylis, Wild Court
Vidyan Ravinthiran, Poetry Book SocietyFor previous work: "Miller has written a curious and searching book that elegantly balances themes of love, loss and remembrance. This slim volume of poetry is incredibly ambitious in scope."
Jack Solloway, The London Magazine"Miller is a poet of concept as much as rhythm and sound, who is unafraid to stand in the naked light of artistic insufficiency, and ask her questions, and leave behind her declarations of love and goodness."
Juliano Zaffino"More Miracle Than Bird will ring in my mind's ear for a long time, and I will return to its pages. A wonderful book!"
Jay Parini"Only a wildly gifted novelist could give us this terrific tale of Georgie Hyde-Lees and her some-time suitor, the much older poet W.B. Yeats. Written with superb emotional rightness."
Joan SilberFor previous work: "Alice Miller looks hard at history's terrifying straight lines, yet time and again turns to the obsessive, sometimes redemptive circlings of art. She knows that in a universe ruled by time and death, words can both rescue and destroy us, sometimes in a single utterance"
Bill ManhireFor previous work: "Alice Miller knows what is at stake in the infinitesimal, the split second, the infra-thin. The poems in her scintillating collection, Nowhere Nearer, make us aware of how precarious the earth's crust is, how treacherous the ambient oceans can be, and how ephemeral we ourselves are as we traverse great distances through the air."
Ranjit Hoskote"Alice Miller takes a critical lens to our current malaise, tackling the current decline of our climate and planet to the way technology has both advanced and stunted human civilizations. A collection which feels as if it's somehow speaking to us all."
Anthony Anaxagorou"Everyone has a hand in the fire, everyone is responsible for the flames that will come to 'each' town. Miller's poetry subtly calls to individual agency and what we stand to lose by making selfish choices. [...] What Fire is concerned with our capacity to change while examining the world on the point of a precipice. [...] The end is not the end, but a chance to start again."
Charlie Baylis, Wild Court