The Book of Blood by Vicki Feaver
Split between dark and light, this book records the dichotomy of human experience with unflinching force and clarity. It deals with break-up, depression, illness and death. But it also reveals an intense involvement with nature and a capacity for healing and love. There are intimate personal poems reflecting on relationships with people and creatures; poems which enter the lives of real and imaginary characters, Keats and Medea and Blodeuwedd, for example; and also poems which engage with paintings and political events. Set in a territory which connects child with adult, myth with reality, the personal with the universal, the book shows a poet fully open to the richness and possibilities of the world but also aware of its violence and pain, not as a remote observer but as someone who is a part of it.
Everyday subjects resonate with truth and humour, but beneath the beautiful words are deep, dark and shocking truths * The Herald *
Violence stalks the book -- Colin Waters * Sunday Herald *
Vicki Feaver's poems always come back to contemporary relationships - not so much domestic as domestic gothic, where the women are sensual and murderousThese are powerfully distinctive poems, women's poems that don't shut out men -- Matthew Sweeney
Feaver’s best poems offer a disquietingly direct apprehension of the powers by which we are made and driven -- Sean O'brein * The Independent *
Violence stalks the book -- Colin Waters * Sunday Herald *
Vicki Feaver's poems always come back to contemporary relationships - not so much domestic as domestic gothic, where the women are sensual and murderousThese are powerfully distinctive poems, women's poems that don't shut out men -- Matthew Sweeney
Feaver’s best poems offer a disquietingly direct apprehension of the powers by which we are made and driven -- Sean O'brein * The Independent *
Vicki Feaver was born in Nottingham in 1943 and studied at Durham and University College, London. She has published two previous collections, Close Relatives (1981) and The Handless Maiden (1994).
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| ISBN 13 | 9780224076845 |
| ISBN 10 | 0224076841 |
| Title | The Book of Blood |
| Author | Vicki Feaver |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Vintage Publishing |
| Year published | 2006-04-27 |
| Number of pages | 80 |
| Prizes | Short-listed for Forward Poetry Prize: Best Collection 2006 |
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