Book description
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.
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).
