Bone Antler Stone – Tim Miller

12 Dec 202111 Dec 2021Tim Miller

1606: A Poem about Shakespeare (podcast)

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22 Nov 202121 Nov 2021Tim Miller

Poems: Travels through Orkney (podcast)

Listen to a poem from my 2018 book, Bone Antler Stone. You can subscribe to my podcast here. Outside the US, order here Listen to other readings from Bone Antler Stone

7 Sep 20216 Sep 2021Tim Miller

Poem: “Chauvet, Lascaux, Altamira” (podcast)

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23 Aug 202124 Aug 2021Tim Miller

“Cauldron & Drink” (poem)

Listen to a poem from my 2018 book, Bone Antler Stone. You can subscribe to my podcast here. Outside the US, order here

5 Aug 202113 Aug 2021Tim Miller

“Song to the Smith” & “A Song to Stone”: 2 Poems

Listen to two poems from my 2018 book, Bone Antler Stone. You can subscribe to my podcast here. Outside the US, order here

30 Jul 20214 Aug 2021Tim Miller

The Sun Sets into the Sea (poem)

The sun sets into the sea with a hissand rises with the sound of a driven wheel,the creak of speaking stone, metal and wood. The sun sets into the sea to simmerand rises with the sound of stretched leatherand the song of the horse’s chain and bit. The sun sets into the sea and is […]

30 Sep 201930 Sep 2019Tim Miller

Bone Antler Stone by Tim Miller: Book Review

Originally posted on Kathryn (Kate) MacDonald :
Tim Miller collapses 30,000 years of archaeology into a poetry collection that feels the thrill of immediate experience. He stirs a bit of magic, weaving it into the facts of what we know from long-past history. In “Chauvet, Lascaux, Altamira” (France and Spain, 35,000 – 12,000 BC), Miller writes:…

4 Jan 20194 Jan 2019Tim Miller

“Bone Antler Stone” reviewed in the Big Windows Review

Many thanks to Tom Zimmerman at The Big Windows Review for his review of Bone Antler Stone. I’ve pasted an excerpt below, and you can read the entire review here. Excerpts and reviews from the book are here. “… [Bone Antler Stone] is an act of powerful sympathetic imagination that forges a connection between lost cultures […]

20 Dec 201820 Dec 2018Tim Miller

“Bone Antler Stone” on NPR

Many thanks to Bill O’Driscoll and Pittsburgh’s 90.5 WESA for interviewing me about Bone Antler Stone. You can listen to an audio interview, with a longer story on their website, here. Excerpts and reviews from the book are here.

20 Dec 201811 Aug 2021Tim Miller

Female Figurines and a Shipwreck: Two Poems from “Bone Antler Stone”

Here are two of my favorite poems from Bone Antler Stone: one on the famous ice age “Venus” figurines from 20-30,000 years ago, and another on a shipwreck from 1300 BC. You can order the entire collection here, or find more poems from the book here. Female Figurines for Evie Hum the words with me and […]

16 Jul 201826 Jul 2018Tim Miller

Bone Antler Stone by Tim Miller, a review

Originally posted on Daniel Paul Marshall:
I’m aware this “review” could potentially end up as flat out extolment for a poet who has become my friend and whose poems I was fortunate enough to have read in their early drafts. Am I biased? Probably. But I am going to make an effort to evidence what…

29 Jun 20189 Aug 2021Tim Miller

“Bone Antler Stone”: A Reading List for Ancient Europe

Here’s a roll call for all the books & scholars I gained so much from, in writing the poems in Bone Antler Stone. For some reason a handful are wildly expensive now, so I’ve put an asterisk before those that are still reasonably priced. Although as I discovered in collecting them all (sometimes only being […]

21 Jun 20189 Aug 2021Tim Miller

“Bone Antler Stone” now available

“Our prehistory now has its poet laureate.” – Barry Cunliffe, Oxford University Download readings from the book below, or read an essay about the book. US readers can order copies directly from me here: UK and worldwide readers, order directly from The High Window Press here Passing through more than thirty thousand years of history, […]

19 Jun 20189 Aug 2021Tim Miller

On “Bone Antler Stone”: Ancient Europe, the Narrow Book & Finding Poetry Again

My poetry collection Bone Antler Stone—a panorama of ancient Europe from the painted caves of Lascaux to contact with Greece and Rome—comes out on Thursday. You can order it here. Here’s an essay on how it came to be written: The poems of Bone Antler Stone go way back, as a book about ancient history […]