The Book of Blood
$34.93
- Paperback
80 pages
- Release Date
15 April 2006
Summary
The long-awaited third collection from one of England’s finest women poets.
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 c…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780224076845 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0224076841 |
| Author: | Vicki Feaver |
| Publisher: | Vintage Publishing |
| Imprint: | Jonathan Cape |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 80 |
| Release Date: | 15 April 2006 |
| Weight: | 100g |
| Dimensions: | 200mm x 128mm x 12mm |
| Series: | Cape Poetry |
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Everyday subjects resonate with truth and humour, but beneath the beautiful words are deep, dark and shocking truths
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 murderous. These are powerfully distinctive poems, women’s poems that don’t shut out men – Matthew SweeneyFeaver’s best poems offer a disquietingly direct apprehension of the powers by which we are made and driven – Sean O’brein * The Independent *
About The Author
Vicki Feaver
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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