Poetry
Alongside Rishi Dastidar and Ed Reiss, I was invited to respond to ‘The Bomber’, by a poet whose identity was unknown to us. My response began with its doubleness…
‘Poems find their ways towards meaning through their readers. There’s risk in this process, but also trust, and generosity. For me, ‘The Bomber’ sets off in two opposite directions. Burnished by patriotism and derring do, the surface narrative gives a plain-spoken, boy’s eye view of wartime summer afternoons by the Windrush in Gloucestershire. A second current flows through this, interrogating the ethics of conflict, and the exploitation of cultural framing as a form of sublimated propaganda…’
I was really honoured to be asked by Annemarie Ní Churreáin to publish the first two poems from my next collection to be shared publicly in Stinging Fly. ‘as I slept I was let down through black waters’ draws inspiration from the myth of osiris, and the river Nile, and was written in the aftermath of major cancer surgery. ‘I was fifteen and two months’ remembers my experiences as a teenager seeking to free myself from the sexual predation to which I was subjected in childhood, and is enacted through a series of encounters beside the river Dordogne in France during the late 1970s.
Link to text of talk given around erasure poems in bird of winter at StAnza 22 in St Andrews with recordings of the poems in sequence. The talk begin halfway through the blog: ‘What we cannot say and how we say it’.
Essay on ‘je suis son petit chat’ January 2022: ‘Welcoming back ‘the little cat’ : holding and healing childhood trauma in the artworks we make.’
‘je suis son petit chat il est mon papa’ bath magg 8 recording.
BLUE : A new poem, published in Wasafiri online on 2 August 2021 with a photograph by Cam Brennan chosen by Nina Mingya Powles.
I think she is beginning: alice hiller on adolescence as self-reclamation in four poems from bird of winter published in The Friday Poem.
bird of winter, Pavilion Poetry, Liverpool University Press, May 2021.
Magma Changeling Issue 2019
perverse issue 2A
Poetry London Summer 2019
The Stand Volume 17
Cambridge Literary Review 12 Script issue 2019
tentacular https://www.tentacularmag.com/issue-4d/alice-hiller
Selection Midnight Listening Jerwood Arvon Anthology
Creative Futures Chemistry Anthology 2018
Hippocrates anthology 2018
Non Fiction
The T-Shirt Book, Ebury Press, 1988.
‘“An Avenue to Some Degree of Profit and Reputation” : The Sketch Book as Washington Irving’s entrée and undoing.’ Journal of American Studies 31, 1997 Cambridge University Press.
‘The Perverse Tourism of Captain Basil Hall’ Studies in Travel Writing 3, 1999, Nottingham Trent University.
‘“This Strangest of Countries” The Letters of Fanny Kemble’
Literary Imagination 10 no 3 Oxford University Press, 2008.
Reviews
‘Turbid Waters : Fanny Kemble – A Performed Life’ Essays in Criticism LVIII 3 2008 Oxford University Press.
‘New Ambossa: Bernardine Evaristo Blonde Roots’ TLS August 2015
‘Oliver Black : Shrunk’ TLS In Brief December 2016
‘Anna Stothard : The Museum of Cathay’ TLS In Brief March 2017
‘Wioletta Greg : Swallowing Mercury’ TLS In Brief June 2017
‘Inua Ellams Selected Poets : #Afterhours : TLS In Brief June 2017
‘Jean Hanff Korelitz : The Devil and Webster’ : TLS In Brief September 2017.
‘Squeezing Between the Corpses : Pascale Petit Mama Amazonica and Anne Michaels All We Saw’ Poetry Review 107:4 Winter 2017.
‘Sideways on to everything we knew : Andrew Motion Essex Clay and Ruth Padel Emerald’ Poetry Review 108:3 Autumn 2018
‘Rachael Allen, Mona Arshi, Gerry Loose’ Magma 75 Autumn 2019.
‘Even When Joy is Amputated’: Theresa Lola, Fatimah Ashgar and Norman Erikson Pasaribu Poetry London Autumn 2019.
Review: Sideways on to everything we knew
harana poetry issue one:
Further harana reviews issues 2, 4 & 5.
Interviews
Pascale Petit for Le Mot Juste en Anglais
The French version – http://bit.ly/2DWaUmr
The English version – http://bit.ly/2DBD6Yh
Awards
Short listed 2017 & 2019 Bridport Prize
Commended 2018 Hippocrates Prize
Highly Commended Creative Futures 2018
Shortlisted inaugural Rebecca Swift Award
Short listed 2018 Arts Foundation Poetry Prize.
