bird of winter

Shortlisted for the Forward Prize for Best First Collection 2021 Shortlisted for the John Pollard Foundation International Poetry Prize 2022 PBS Special Commendation Summer 2021 Alice 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 doc