I Want! I Want!
$28.81
- Paperback
112 pages
- Release Date
21 November 2019
Summary
A late flowering from one of our finest poets
The title of Vicki Feaver’s remarkable new collection derives from Blake’s illustration of a child standing with one foot on a ladder to the moon, crying ‘I want! I want!’ In the title poem it represents her childhood ambition to be a poet; in another, she rejects pressure towards achievement and longs to return to the sensual world of the earth.
This startlingly honest book follows the ladder of a life for seventy-five years, in p…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781787331815 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1787331814 |
| Author: | Vicki Feaver |
| Publisher: | Vintage Publishing |
| Imprint: | Jonathan Cape |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 112 |
| Release Date: | 21 November 2019 |
| Weight: | 115g |
| Dimensions: | 198mm x 130mm x 8mm |
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About The Author
Vicki Feaver
Vicki Feaver was born in Nottingham in 1943 and studied at Durham and University College, London. She has published three previous collections, Close Relatives (1981), The Handless Maiden (1994) and The Book of Blood (2006), which was shortlisted for the Forward Prize and Costa Award for Poetry. She received the W.H. Heinemann Award in 1994 and the Cholmondeley Award in 1999.
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