Nowhere Nearer

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.

'Here is a poet who wants to “speak in our/plainest tongues” but who also aims “to sing my way out.” 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 Manhire