Nancy Anne Miller Releases Poem Collection
Bermudian Nancy Anne Miller has had a collection of her poems, inspired by the island, published.
Selected Poems, published by Valley Press – Independent Publishing in the UK, “traces the decades she has been writing about her homeland with the use of image metaphor as her primary tool for revealing Bermuda’s complexities.”
A review from Simon Lewis, editor of Illuminations: An International Magazine of Contemporary Writing, continues: “For Miller, the use of image metaphor allows a poem’s meaning to radiate across the entire poem as one thing is reflected through another in a circular movement, hence preventing one final climatic interpretation.
“She states: ‘The island’s History cannot be written down in a straight line,’ and sees this as a female voiced way of being a poet, one that is inclusive, layered, and exploratory.
“Everyday life in Bermuda [and beyond] is evoked by a set of tensions – between the culture of taste, class, and propriety and the history of race, caste, and violence; between the sense of prized uniqueness and dulling isolation; between a sense of remoteness from the world and the exemplariness of the island-as-world.”
Ms Miller has 11 published collections, including Queen Palm: A Bermuda Christmas.
She is published internationally in journals such as Edinburgh Review, Poetry Ireland Review, The Moth, Salzburg Review, Agenda, Stand, Magma, Ambit, The Fiddlehead, Dalhousie Review, The International Literary Quarterly, The Caribbean Writer, PREE, among many others.
In 2009, she organized the Ber-Mused poetry reading for Bermuda’s 400th. She is a MacDowell Fellow, and Bermuda Arts Council Grant recipient.
Selected Poems can be ordered from Valley Press, UK website
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