BLUE by alice hiller

    * Click here to download a screenreader friendly version of this poem. alice hiller’s Forward Prize shortlisted debut, bird of winter, responds to being groomed and sexually abused in childhood, and finding healing beyond this crime. Author of The T-Shirt Book, with a PhD from UCL, she writes and curates across a variety of genres, and works with creativity as a force for witness and transformation. alice also interviews writers about ‘saying the difficult thing’ on her blog and founded the Voicing Our Silences collective.  Photo by Cam Brennan on Unsplash