Shortlisted for the Costa Poetry Award 2006.
Costa Book Awards 2006 Judges' comment: "Fierce poems with striking imagery and fine control of pace and tone."
| Primary Genre | Poetry |
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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.
The Book of Blood features in the following genres: Poetry, eBooks of the Month, Biography, Literature and Literary studies, Recommendations
The Book of Blood is available in Paperback
The Book of Blood was written by Vicki Feaver and published by Vintage
The Book of Blood has 65 pages
Yes it is part of Cape Poetry series
£11.69
