contents ‘I am a spring/ The storm enters her’: Sarala Estruch on making art that transforms the silencings of family, history and diaspora. Keep reading June 28, 2023June 28, 2023 ‘black river’ or ‘fiume nero’: exploring how meaning and sensation move across the boundaries of geography with poet and translator Piero Toto – who translated poems from ‘bird of winter’ for ‘Atelier’. Keep reading May 8, 2023May 8, 2023 It’s not often you get asked to read 222 books in two months: looking back on being a 2022 Forwards Prize Judge. Keep reading March 2, 2023March 3, 2023 ‘Solitude as Translucence on Worthing Beach’: Travelling the intertidal zone back to my two year old self for Magma Poetry. Keep reading July 15, 2022July 25, 2022 Inviting the reader to collaborate dynamically in the act of reading – an interview and essay by alice hiller with Arc Magazine in India on how working experimentally can confer agency around complex materials. Keep reading April 9, 2022April 9, 2022 Speaking a rainbow: performing live at StAnza Poetry alongside Annemarie Ní Churreáin and Maria Stadnicka. Keep reading March 18, 2022March 17, 2022 ‘What we cannot say and how we say it’ – giving transformative, creative witness to historic crimes at StAnza Festival 2022 at St Andrews from 7-13 March with Maria Stadnicka and Annemarie Ní Churreáin and celebrating a brilliant bill of fellow performers and artists on Scotland’s East Coast. Keep reading March 2, 2022March 2, 2022 Welcoming back ‘the little cat’: holding and healing the hauntings and recurrences of childhood trauma within the artworks we make. Keep reading January 19, 2022April 9, 2022 Letting new light in – setting your creative compass for 2022 and beyond with the help of a ‘Basque Whaler’ Keep reading December 22, 2021December 22, 2021 ‘If in doubt, breathe’ – walking my teenage freedom trail with Outspoken London at the Queen Elizabeth Hall. Keep reading November 30, 2021 ‘Just because there’s a fence, the garden don’t stop growing’: poems as pathways beyond trauma at Poetry in Aldeburgh. Keep reading November 19, 2021November 19, 2021 Multiple Ways into Words: Celebrating Being on the Forwards Prizes First Collection Shortlist of 2021 Keep reading October 21, 2021October 21, 2021 ‘sea level’ : the poem as miniature tornado – ‘bird of winter’ podcast no 2. Keep reading September 29, 2021October 1, 2021 Like spring after winter – growing and claiming life beyond disaster. Keep reading September 6, 2021October 1, 2021 Introducing the bird of winter podcast series: exploring working safely and creatively with difficult materials through discussion and prompts. Keep reading June 29, 2021September 3, 2021 Finding out that ‘bird of winter’ has been chosen as one of the 10 books recommended by the Poetry Book Society for Mental Health Awareness Week – and launching difficult materials live online with safeguarding in mind. Keep reading May 15, 2021May 24, 2021 Voicing Our Silences : a free writing website combining interviews, performances and live prompts to connect and recharge us all through the last months of lockdown. Keep reading February 26, 2021February 26, 2021 ‘What is ever easy to write? I’m interested in what gets lost in memory, where it goes – how the body holds’: Rachel Long talks to alice hiller about the power of ‘girl-speak’ and art as transfiguration in ‘My Darling from the Lions’. Keep reading February 16, 2021April 21, 2021 ‘Unfamiliarity, the state of being unknown, is not the same as non-existence. Migrant nurses exist. We do exist in this world. But somehow we are not known.’ –Romalyn Ante and Pascale Petit perform and speak with alice hiller about the work witness in their new collections, Antiemetic for Homesickness and Tiger Girl. Keep reading January 22, 2021January 25, 2021 my debut ‘bird of winter’ – published by Pavilion in May 2021 Keep reading October 1, 2020April 21, 2021 Of dumplings, magnolias and pomelos: Alice Hiller on travelling in the imagination with Nina Mingya Powles. Keep reading September 1, 2020 Marking the Spaces of our Silences : alice hiller on art as activism in the aftermaths of trauma. Keep reading August 5, 2020May 18, 2021 “Ask yourself what makes you unique, different and amazing”: Arji Manuelpillai talks to alice hiller about saying the difficult thing in his debut ‘Mutton Rolls’ by “reflecting the way the mind moves” and embracing “exclusion as a force of creativity.” Keep reading July 21, 2020October 28, 2021 “As long as the body is moving/ the heart will follow”: Troy Cabida on how “tenderness becomes a strength” when writing into the bi-cultural, bi-queer British-Filipinx space – and how he is taking to the skies with his Bad Betty debut ‘War Dove’ despite lockdown. Keep reading May 4, 2020October 29, 2021 ‘I want the poems to be hospitable to multiple voices. I want them to be porous – a kind of listening device, as well as a speaking device’ : Linda Gregerson on making art by ‘running forward in the dark.’ Keep reading February 14, 2020April 16, 2020 Grief as re-generation: the Magma Loss issue. Keep reading December 5, 2019 Radicalising “the feeling world of a poem”: Alice Hiller on why new work by Vahni Capildeo, Eugene Ostashevsky and Anita Pati is calling the ‘English’ language to account. Keep reading November 5, 2019November 5, 2019 Eight ‘hearing the less welcome’ poets live at the Bloomsbury Festival 2019 Keep reading November 1, 2019November 1, 2019 “I would like this book to show people some of the many ways you can f**k with gender rather than always being f**ked over by it” : Dean Atta speaks with Alice Hiller about growing up Black and queer and coming out to yourself, and the world, in feathery, rasor sharp, high-heeled drag in The Black Flamingo. Keep reading October 15, 2019April 16, 2020 ‘I feel similarly when I’m watching a horror film to when I am reading poetry, like some kind of truth of the world is being exposed.’ Rachael Allen speaks with Alice Hiller on opening yourself to extreme states and alternative forms to reach, and make, the new in your work. Keep reading October 7, 2019October 7, 2019 MOON POEMS FROM THE DARK SIDE – hearing the ‘less welcome’ poets Jenny Mitchell, Kostya Tsolákis, Emma Jeremy, SK Grout, Angus Strachan, Julie Irigaray, Appiah Sackey & Alice Hiller at The Harrison on 17/10/19 for Bloomsbury Festival Keep reading September 3, 2019September 10, 2019 ‘I believe we are an integral part of this very sprawling, messy web of living things’: Yvonne Reddick talks to Alice Hiller on eco-poetics, oil, bereavement, Brexit – and editing the forthcoming Magma ‘Loss’ issue. Keep reading July 25, 2019July 6, 2020 Interview Index Keep reading July 4, 2019July 4, 2019 ‘I am a different person in one language than I am in another’: L.Kiew on combining Teo Chew, Hokkien and English in ‘The Unquiet’ – then rewriting privilege by letting words become ‘beasts that rub up against each other’. Keep reading June 28, 2019October 27, 2021 ‘I’m trying to write the stories not only of how my family suffered, but also how they survived’: Natalie Linh Bolderston on witnessing and healing in ‘The Protection of Ghosts’. Keep reading May 21, 2019June 9, 2021 hearing the less welcome MASS PUBLICATION CELEBRATION No. 1: ‘a safe place to be completely unsafe’ Mary Devlin Powell. Keep reading May 15, 2019May 15, 2019 ‘When your mother is being unmotherly, it’s taboo to show that’ : Karen Smith on the transformative power of creating in her debut ‘Schist’. Keep reading April 30, 2019July 4, 2019 hearing the less welcome/ mass publication celebration no 1: live in London at Burley Fisher Books on 9/5/19 and at the Poetry Cafe on 18/5/19 Keep reading April 25, 2019April 25, 2019 The Work of Witness: testifying to sexual abuse in childhood by alice hiller Keep reading April 3, 2019May 18, 2021 ‘I wanted to think about the possibility of a revolution based on female principles’: Rebecca Tamás speaks with Alice Hiller. Keep reading March 26, 2019July 4, 2019 Belinda Zhawi: I started writing fundamentally because I felt represented when I read Black writers, and then I felt that it was my duty as well to contribute. Keep reading February 26, 2019June 8, 2020 “Everything I write, I give access to devastate me first” : Shivanee Ramlochan, on ‘saying the difficult thing’ with “weapons of conjure.” Keep reading January 15, 2019February 18, 2020 ‘Writing with’ Lila Matsumoto Keep reading January 11, 2019 ‘Vulnerability as Power’ : Romalyn Ante speaking with Alice Hiller on Nursing in the NHS & finding the words to be heard as a nurse and a poet writing between the UK and the Philippines. Keep reading January 7, 2019April 16, 2020 ‘saying the difficult thing’ interviews 2019 Keep reading December 15, 2018 From my 32 year old mouth, a terrified 8 year old whispered ‘Don’t make me’ : alice hiller on ‘saying the difficult thing’ in her work – and life. Keep reading October 2, 2018May 18, 2021 When you expose a problem you pose a problem Keep reading June 22, 2018 Sharon Olds : Trauma and the Secreted Self Keep reading May 4, 2018 Our launch line up – 4th November 6pm at the Poetry Cafe Keep reading November 6, 2017 Art as hope Keep reading May 26, 2017May 26, 2017 Two poems about anorexia Keep reading May 11, 2017May 26, 2017 Travelling back to my Dad Keep reading April 7, 2017May 26, 2017 Kicking off the year of #UNshame Keep reading March 20, 2017March 24, 2017 Share this:TwitterFacebookMoreLinkedInRedditPinterestTelegramWhatsAppEmailLike this:Like Loading...
‘I am a spring/ The storm enters her’: Sarala Estruch on making art that transforms the silencings of family, history and diaspora. Keep reading June 28, 2023June 28, 2023
‘black river’ or ‘fiume nero’: exploring how meaning and sensation move across the boundaries of geography with poet and translator Piero Toto – who translated poems from ‘bird of winter’ for ‘Atelier’. Keep reading May 8, 2023May 8, 2023
It’s not often you get asked to read 222 books in two months: looking back on being a 2022 Forwards Prize Judge. Keep reading March 2, 2023March 3, 2023
‘Solitude as Translucence on Worthing Beach’: Travelling the intertidal zone back to my two year old self for Magma Poetry. Keep reading July 15, 2022July 25, 2022
Inviting the reader to collaborate dynamically in the act of reading – an interview and essay by alice hiller with Arc Magazine in India on how working experimentally can confer agency around complex materials. Keep reading April 9, 2022April 9, 2022
Speaking a rainbow: performing live at StAnza Poetry alongside Annemarie Ní Churreáin and Maria Stadnicka. Keep reading March 18, 2022March 17, 2022
‘What we cannot say and how we say it’ – giving transformative, creative witness to historic crimes at StAnza Festival 2022 at St Andrews from 7-13 March with Maria Stadnicka and Annemarie Ní Churreáin and celebrating a brilliant bill of fellow performers and artists on Scotland’s East Coast. Keep reading March 2, 2022March 2, 2022
Welcoming back ‘the little cat’: holding and healing the hauntings and recurrences of childhood trauma within the artworks we make. Keep reading January 19, 2022April 9, 2022
Letting new light in – setting your creative compass for 2022 and beyond with the help of a ‘Basque Whaler’ Keep reading December 22, 2021December 22, 2021
‘If in doubt, breathe’ – walking my teenage freedom trail with Outspoken London at the Queen Elizabeth Hall. Keep reading November 30, 2021
‘Just because there’s a fence, the garden don’t stop growing’: poems as pathways beyond trauma at Poetry in Aldeburgh. Keep reading November 19, 2021November 19, 2021
Multiple Ways into Words: Celebrating Being on the Forwards Prizes First Collection Shortlist of 2021 Keep reading October 21, 2021October 21, 2021
‘sea level’ : the poem as miniature tornado – ‘bird of winter’ podcast no 2. Keep reading September 29, 2021October 1, 2021
Like spring after winter – growing and claiming life beyond disaster. Keep reading September 6, 2021October 1, 2021
Introducing the bird of winter podcast series: exploring working safely and creatively with difficult materials through discussion and prompts. Keep reading June 29, 2021September 3, 2021
Finding out that ‘bird of winter’ has been chosen as one of the 10 books recommended by the Poetry Book Society for Mental Health Awareness Week – and launching difficult materials live online with safeguarding in mind. Keep reading May 15, 2021May 24, 2021
Voicing Our Silences : a free writing website combining interviews, performances and live prompts to connect and recharge us all through the last months of lockdown. Keep reading February 26, 2021February 26, 2021
‘What is ever easy to write? I’m interested in what gets lost in memory, where it goes – how the body holds’: Rachel Long talks to alice hiller about the power of ‘girl-speak’ and art as transfiguration in ‘My Darling from the Lions’. Keep reading February 16, 2021April 21, 2021
‘Unfamiliarity, the state of being unknown, is not the same as non-existence. Migrant nurses exist. We do exist in this world. But somehow we are not known.’ –Romalyn Ante and Pascale Petit perform and speak with alice hiller about the work witness in their new collections, Antiemetic for Homesickness and Tiger Girl. Keep reading January 22, 2021January 25, 2021
my debut ‘bird of winter’ – published by Pavilion in May 2021 Keep reading October 1, 2020April 21, 2021
Of dumplings, magnolias and pomelos: Alice Hiller on travelling in the imagination with Nina Mingya Powles. Keep reading September 1, 2020
Marking the Spaces of our Silences : alice hiller on art as activism in the aftermaths of trauma. Keep reading August 5, 2020May 18, 2021
“Ask yourself what makes you unique, different and amazing”: Arji Manuelpillai talks to alice hiller about saying the difficult thing in his debut ‘Mutton Rolls’ by “reflecting the way the mind moves” and embracing “exclusion as a force of creativity.” Keep reading July 21, 2020October 28, 2021
“As long as the body is moving/ the heart will follow”: Troy Cabida on how “tenderness becomes a strength” when writing into the bi-cultural, bi-queer British-Filipinx space – and how he is taking to the skies with his Bad Betty debut ‘War Dove’ despite lockdown. Keep reading May 4, 2020October 29, 2021
‘I want the poems to be hospitable to multiple voices. I want them to be porous – a kind of listening device, as well as a speaking device’ : Linda Gregerson on making art by ‘running forward in the dark.’ Keep reading February 14, 2020April 16, 2020
Radicalising “the feeling world of a poem”: Alice Hiller on why new work by Vahni Capildeo, Eugene Ostashevsky and Anita Pati is calling the ‘English’ language to account. Keep reading November 5, 2019November 5, 2019
Eight ‘hearing the less welcome’ poets live at the Bloomsbury Festival 2019 Keep reading November 1, 2019November 1, 2019
“I would like this book to show people some of the many ways you can f**k with gender rather than always being f**ked over by it” : Dean Atta speaks with Alice Hiller about growing up Black and queer and coming out to yourself, and the world, in feathery, rasor sharp, high-heeled drag in The Black Flamingo. Keep reading October 15, 2019April 16, 2020
‘I feel similarly when I’m watching a horror film to when I am reading poetry, like some kind of truth of the world is being exposed.’ Rachael Allen speaks with Alice Hiller on opening yourself to extreme states and alternative forms to reach, and make, the new in your work. Keep reading October 7, 2019October 7, 2019
MOON POEMS FROM THE DARK SIDE – hearing the ‘less welcome’ poets Jenny Mitchell, Kostya Tsolákis, Emma Jeremy, SK Grout, Angus Strachan, Julie Irigaray, Appiah Sackey & Alice Hiller at The Harrison on 17/10/19 for Bloomsbury Festival Keep reading September 3, 2019September 10, 2019
‘I believe we are an integral part of this very sprawling, messy web of living things’: Yvonne Reddick talks to Alice Hiller on eco-poetics, oil, bereavement, Brexit – and editing the forthcoming Magma ‘Loss’ issue. Keep reading July 25, 2019July 6, 2020
‘I am a different person in one language than I am in another’: L.Kiew on combining Teo Chew, Hokkien and English in ‘The Unquiet’ – then rewriting privilege by letting words become ‘beasts that rub up against each other’. Keep reading June 28, 2019October 27, 2021
‘I’m trying to write the stories not only of how my family suffered, but also how they survived’: Natalie Linh Bolderston on witnessing and healing in ‘The Protection of Ghosts’. Keep reading May 21, 2019June 9, 2021
hearing the less welcome MASS PUBLICATION CELEBRATION No. 1: ‘a safe place to be completely unsafe’ Mary Devlin Powell. Keep reading May 15, 2019May 15, 2019
‘When your mother is being unmotherly, it’s taboo to show that’ : Karen Smith on the transformative power of creating in her debut ‘Schist’. Keep reading April 30, 2019July 4, 2019
hearing the less welcome/ mass publication celebration no 1: live in London at Burley Fisher Books on 9/5/19 and at the Poetry Cafe on 18/5/19 Keep reading April 25, 2019April 25, 2019
The Work of Witness: testifying to sexual abuse in childhood by alice hiller Keep reading April 3, 2019May 18, 2021
‘I wanted to think about the possibility of a revolution based on female principles’: Rebecca Tamás speaks with Alice Hiller. Keep reading March 26, 2019July 4, 2019
Belinda Zhawi: I started writing fundamentally because I felt represented when I read Black writers, and then I felt that it was my duty as well to contribute. Keep reading February 26, 2019June 8, 2020
“Everything I write, I give access to devastate me first” : Shivanee Ramlochan, on ‘saying the difficult thing’ with “weapons of conjure.” Keep reading January 15, 2019February 18, 2020
‘Vulnerability as Power’ : Romalyn Ante speaking with Alice Hiller on Nursing in the NHS & finding the words to be heard as a nurse and a poet writing between the UK and the Philippines. Keep reading January 7, 2019April 16, 2020
From my 32 year old mouth, a terrified 8 year old whispered ‘Don’t make me’ : alice hiller on ‘saying the difficult thing’ in her work – and life. Keep reading October 2, 2018May 18, 2021