Berlin
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family
holocaust
Jewish
Mary Shelley
miscarriage
motherhood
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- ISBN 9781805966166
- Dimensions: 118 x 189mm
- Publication Date: 28 Apr 2026
- Publisher: Liverpool University Press
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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Personal and political collide in Alice Miller’s fourth poetry collection, as she compares present-day Berlin, where she is a new mother, with the city her German-Jewish grandmother was forced to leave. Darting through bedrooms and empires, whispers and wars, bureaucracy and origin stories, these unpredictable poems invoke Mary Shelley, Homer, and the atom bomb to ask if we can ever find a new beginning. How many buildings and oceans, how many minutes and years, how many voices speak through us? And if the past is never past, can we ever repair the present?
Alice Miller is a writer from Aotearoa New Zealand living in Berlin. She is the author of three previous poetry collections and a novel. Her collection Nowhere Nearer (Pavilion, 2018) was a PBS Recommendation and her novel about Georgie Yeats, More Miracle than Bird (Tin House, 2020) was a New York Times summer selection. A graduate of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop and the International Institute of Modern Letters, Alice is currently on the faculty of the MFA programme at Cedar Crest College.
