Alison's most recent collection, Sisters in Spitfires (Indigo Dreams, 2015), celebrates the women who flew with the Air Transport Auxiliary (ATA) during the Second World War. They flew Anything to Anywhere - from Tiger Moths to Wellingtons and four-engine bombers - but shared a particular love of the iconic Spitfire. There were 164 women of the 1,246 ATA aircrew, including four female engineers, from over 25 countries. Pilots had no instruments or radios and were at the mercy of the British weather and enemy aircraft, often ferrying several planes each day.
“Alison’s beautiful poetry helps us share the myriad of emotions these wonderful women went through in the most testing of times.” Pauline Vahey, British Women Pilots’ Association
“Alison Hill has really captured my mother's spirit of adventure, her joy of flying, her love of nature, life and her sense of fun.” Candida Adkins, daughter of ATA pilot Jackie Moggridge
Available via http://www.indigodreamsbookshop.com/#/alison-hill-sis/4590560967 or on Amazon.
Supported through the National Lottery through Arts Council England.
"This isn't just a beautiful series of poems, it is an outstanding tribute to the ATA women and all they achieved. Their story is humbling, no matter how modest they are about it today. You've captured it all perfectly, especially the joy of flying the Spit, the 'women's plane'."
Jacky Hyams
Two of the poems in Sisters in Spitfires have been included in Spitfire Stories, a new book by Jacky Hyams, published in partnership with the Imperial War Museum - order at https://www.amazon.co.uk/Spitfire-Stories-Designed-Maintained-Iconic-ebook/dp/B0758BFBZ5/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1508352927&sr=8-1&keywords=spitfire+stories
REVIEWS
London Grip reviews Sisters in Spitfires - http://londongrip.co.uk/2015/11/london-grip-poetry-review-hill/
Booksmoke - http://booksmoke.co.uk/sisters-in-spitfires-by-alison-hill/?doing_wp_cron=1487940316.7873980998992919921875
“Alison’s beautiful poetry helps us share the myriad of emotions these wonderful women went through in the most testing of times.” Pauline Vahey, British Women Pilots’ Association
“Alison Hill has really captured my mother's spirit of adventure, her joy of flying, her love of nature, life and her sense of fun.” Candida Adkins, daughter of ATA pilot Jackie Moggridge
Available via http://www.indigodreamsbookshop.com/#/alison-hill-sis/4590560967 or on Amazon.
Supported through the National Lottery through Arts Council England.
"This isn't just a beautiful series of poems, it is an outstanding tribute to the ATA women and all they achieved. Their story is humbling, no matter how modest they are about it today. You've captured it all perfectly, especially the joy of flying the Spit, the 'women's plane'."
Jacky Hyams
Two of the poems in Sisters in Spitfires have been included in Spitfire Stories, a new book by Jacky Hyams, published in partnership with the Imperial War Museum - order at https://www.amazon.co.uk/Spitfire-Stories-Designed-Maintained-Iconic-ebook/dp/B0758BFBZ5/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1508352927&sr=8-1&keywords=spitfire+stories
REVIEWS
London Grip reviews Sisters in Spitfires - http://londongrip.co.uk/2015/11/london-grip-poetry-review-hill/
Booksmoke - http://booksmoke.co.uk/sisters-in-spitfires-by-alison-hill/?doing_wp_cron=1487940316.7873980998992919921875
A lovely collection: the powerfully emotive poems are heartfelt and beautiful, using a distinctive, delicate, style and tone, inviting the reader to find their deeper layers of meaning and emotion. Chris Hardy
There’s steel and depth to the emotion that lies beneath the delicate surface and tender observation of these poems. Stephen Boyce
Cover image by Aprilia Zank
REVIEWS
Robyn Bolam in The Lake: http://www.thelakepoetry.co.uk/reviews/february15/
Abegail Morley: http://abegailmorley.wordpress.com/category/alison-hill/
Greg Freeman, Write Out Loud: http://www.writeoutloud.net/public/blogentry.php?blogentryid=44201
Indigo Dreams, 2014
Copies from IDP at http://www.indigodreamsbookshop.com/alison-hill/4583821923
Also available on Amazon and at Waterstones.
Alison's pamphlet collection, Peppercorn Rent, was published by Flarestack in 2008.
This is a collection that grew on me with repeated readings, and I felt the simplicity and clarity of writing to be its strength. Many lines and images stayed with me.
Liz Bassett, Sphinx
£3 plus £1.50 p&p
ISBN: 978-1906480059
Email Alison for copies: alison-hill@blueyonder.co.uk
Alison has a series of poems in the anthology Poets in Person, edited by Aprilia Zank and published by Indigo Dreams in May 2014. Foreword by George Szirtes and featuring twenty poets including Anne Berkeley, Martyn Crucefix, Adele Ward and Kavita Jindal.
"This anthology, of which I am delighted to be a part, is that dual thing, a chorus full of solos. The quality of the work is high as it would be given the poets here."
George Szirtes
ISBN: 978-1-909357-41-9 £9.99
Order copies from Indigo Dreams http://www.indigodreamsbookshop.com/#/poets-in-person/4583821899
"This anthology, of which I am delighted to be a part, is that dual thing, a chorus full of solos. The quality of the work is high as it would be given the poets here."
George Szirtes
ISBN: 978-1-909357-41-9 £9.99
Order copies from Indigo Dreams http://www.indigodreamsbookshop.com/#/poets-in-person/4583821899
