At times, as with Relief and Postal, Miller develops a single metaphor, mixing keen observation with humour; more frequently, the images succeed each other in a manner echoing a stream of consciousness narrative, as in Every Civilization where in describing a tea urn: Liquid the colour of elastic downpours into an elephant's trunk in an empire where all human memory was stretched.
It is by such imaginative means that she pursues her impassioned quest to express her several cultural allegiances, to Bermuda, England, and America, as in Every Civilization, England Taught Me, and Postal. Through her imagery, she manages, often wryly, sometimes tenderly, always playfully, to point up striking contrasts between these three Anglophone worlds. Her Bermudian roots hold her firmly and give to all her poems a textural vivacity and a sensuous liveliness; one comes away from her poetry refreshed as if one had gulped cold water in a dry land.
-George Hobson, poet, author of Faces of Memory, a former Anglican priest for The American Cathedral in Paris