bird of winter
by
Alice Hiller
Book Details
Format
Paperback / Softback
Book Series
Pavilion Poetry
ISBN-10
180034869X
ISBN-13
9781800348691
Publisher
Liverpool University Press
Imprint
Liverpool University Press
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Apr 19th, 2021
Print length
86 Pages
Weight
114 grams
Dimensions
11.80 x 18.90 x 1.20 cms
Product Classification:
Poetry / poems by individual poetsPoetry by individual poets
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'Hiller offers extraordinary resilience and moments of immense, liberatory tenderness. [...] This is a harrowing book, yes, but ultimately, with its invitation to “billow forth the wrecks we hold”, with its emphasis on resistance and joy, it is a staggeringly beautiful piece of life-affirming work.' Stephanie Sy-Quia, The Poetry Review
Shortlisted for the Forward Prize for Best First Collection 2021Shortlisted for the John Pollard Foundation International Poetry Prize 2022PBS Special Commendation Summer 2021Alice Hiller’s debut performs an act of witness and restitution. Working with her childhood and adolescent medical notes, bird of winter creates a redemptive language to speak the darkness of being sexually abused by a family member. Through the excavated histories of Pompeii and Herculaneum, these poems additionally document the grooming that prepares a child for sexual abuse, and the vulnerability which remains afterwards. Calling up the landscapes and relationships which sustained her, as well as the injury she experienced, Hiller reflects the nature and impact of a crime to which millions around the world are subjected – and asks how we may find our ways towards healing.
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