Missing Hurricanes

“In her suite of poems, Missing Hurricanes, Nancy Anne Miller employs light and colour, interestingly, as allies or victims in the colonisation process: ‘truth too harsh for / the day’s shade-shifting light.’ These elements of colour and light also appear in the poet’s efforts to shape memory, and to make sense of the world she inhabits. Nancy Anne Miller’s subtle use of language is its power.”
— Esther Phillips, Poet Laureate of Barbados and editor of Bim: Arts for the 21st Century

“These penetrating, unflinching poems explore what it means to inhabit two worlds. Miller writes about historical pain with haunting precision. The sun both brightens and burns; the wind presses down. All of it is here in her island life – nature, history, nostalgia, beauty, and the ghosts that linger still.”
— Amanda Smyth, Trinidadian author of Look at You and Fortune

“On the surface, these poems have a quietly observant flow of precise visual description, of a metaphorical aptness that suggests a powerful desire to never allow the sea-surrounded landscapes of Bermuda to escape from memory. But there is much more than that – strength though that is. Interwoven with the natural beauties of the island in these poems is the acknowledgement of its painful history of colonialism and the enslavement of its Black population. In her poem ‘Descended’, Miller asks, ‘What can become of this reckoning when such knowledge / resurfaces, like a mammoth circling the deep …?’ The image of the whale suggests both a powerful breaching of comfortable surfaces and an image of beauty and resurrection when its exhaling spout resembles a ‘Bermuda Easter Lily’. Such depths frequently disturb the gentle surfaces of Nancy Anne Miller’s fine poems.”
— Jeremy Poynting, founder and managing editor of Peepal Tree Press