Fate’s Little Pictures

Larissa Miller's poems are bitter-sweet and full of a restless nostalgia. Her language is charged with rapture, sensuality and irony. Her guises, be it strange creatures, personified landscapes or a ‘hazel grove / dropping its spring pollen’ are always convincing and compelling. Miller’s first full-length collection from Arc, Guests of Eternity (2008), translated by Richard McKane, was a PBS Recommended Translation, and was followed in 2015 by a pamphlet, Regarding the Next Big Occasion, also translated by Richard McKane.