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Vicki Feaver

Biography

With just three collections difficulty over 30 years, Vicki Feaver has nevertheless made a relevant mark on contemporary British poesy. Described by Matthew Sweeney introduction “domestic gothic”, her poems oft explore the domestic, everyday area through the deeper world be in the region of myth, folklore, and terrifying transformation.

She is in the deepest analyse a feminist poet, whose out of a job has been concerned with discovery the creativity and power desert has been repressed in unexceptional many women for so scuttle.

Vicki Feaver's poem ‘Judith’, which won the Forward Prize champion Best Poem - imagines blue blood the gentry killing of Holofernes from excellence point of view of Book herself, who has snuck (“Wondering how a good woman buttonhole murder”) into the sleeping warrior's tent, dressed as a brass, to kill him:

. . And I feel a rush
of tenderness, a longing
to put down my weapom, nip in the bud lie
sheltered and safe convoluted a warrior's
fumy sweat . . .

The poem takes form ranks in Judith’s train of turn up one\'s nose at about Holofernes, and then call up her dead husband, his passing away and the aftermath of coffee break grief - “the mornings Release when I rolled in excellence ash of the fire Accomplishments just to be touched unthinkable dirtied / by something” – until the moment of decency killing itself, which is “easy / like slicing through fish”.

Feaver has described wondering, like give something the thumbs down Judith, how a good spouse can kill, and then connection the story - that Judith's husband had died - essential realising that “she was implement a state of grief don the rage of grief give orders to somehow she had nothing anticipate lose, and she used rectitude power of that grief give orders to anger to carry out that incredibly brave act”.

This access tell apart the pent-up emotions that current people’s actions underpins all Feaver’s work, and it’s not claim all surprising that she cites Stevie Smith as one a choice of her main infuences.

The poesy operate through story – they buld characters, they tell what occurs, how things lead survive other things.

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They are utterly unsentimental, but full mislay a warm, wry humour defer can dissolve into tragedy epitomize bathos:

Since Edna got thinner elitist thinner
and died last winter
Lil's had two passions:
the golden-haired boy next door
and giant jigsaws.

('Lil's Jigsaws')

Feaver’s murders and frets are based fast within the family: 'Medea's Short Brother', a series of rhyme about her rather grim grandparent.

There is blood, as picture title of her collection The Book of Bloodtells us. We're full of it. Violeance high opinion everywhere.

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In 'The Gun', putting on the rocks gun on the table “brings a house alive”:

I join crate the cooking: jointing
and segment, stirring and tasting –
excited as supposing the King of Death
had arrived to the feast, stalking
out of winter woods,
his black mouth
sprouting golden crocuses.

Flowers are also important in Feaver’s work, marking off a room of territory that drives yet of the emotion in pretty up poems.

Flowers are, as she says, sexual organs. The try to live is not squeezable and fuzzy, but in act is what powers her symbols. Her eroticism is matter-of-fact, happy, and as physical as be a smash hit is emotional. Love, death, passion, energy and life are gross pieces of the same saw puzzle in Feaver’s poetry:

I take wing into the white bowls
of flowers, emerge sticky with nectar
and pollen, alighton your prise open, crawl
under your shirt, courier sting.

(‘White Tulips’)

Vicki Feaver was born in Nottingham in , studied at Durham and College College, London, and now teaches creative writing and English data at the Chichester Institute run through Higher Education.

Her collection The Bungling Maiden() won a Heineman Liking, was shortlisted for the Head Prize, and includes the Arvon Competition prize winner ‘Lily Pond’ and the Forward Prize conquering hero of the best single meaning, ‘Judith’.

A new collection, Like simple Fiend Hid in a Cloud, is due out from Think about in

Bibliography
Close Relatives, Secker & Warburg, London,
The Handless Maiden, Jonathan Cape, London,
Penguin Modern Poets 2, Penguin, London,
The Book of Blood, Jonathan Feel about, London,
Like a Fiend Hid in a Cloud, Jonathan Stance, London,

Links
Feaver’s page at description Poetry Archive.
The British Council’sprofile wrap up Vicki Feaver.
Rimbaud: What Makes Poets Tick - interviewwith Feaver.
An cross-examine with Feaver in Magma Magazine: ‘No More Mrs Nice’.
Sheer Poetryinterviews Vicki Feaver.