Vicki Feaver's poetry has a highly distinctive tone, by turns poignant or sinister, and is highly regarded despite the appearance of only two slim poetry volumes in more than twenty years. The re-launched Penguin Modern Poets series in 1995 rightly placed her alongside Carol Ann Duffy and Eavan Boland.
Vicki Feaver is one of Britain's leading poets. She has written three collections of poetry: Close Relatives (Secker, 1981), The Handless Maiden (Cape, 1994) and The Book of Blood (Cape 2006), which was shortlisted for the Forward Prize. She has read and taught at festivals all over the world. Her work is represented in many anthologies of contemporary poetry, and a selection is included in.
Slow Reader - Vicki Feaver. He can make a sculptureand fabulous machines,invent games, tell jokes,give solemn, adult advice-but he is slow to read.When I take him on my kneewith his. Ladybird. bookhe gazes into the air,sighing and shaking his headlike an old manwho knows the mountainsare impassible.
Can anyone please help me identify the main theme in this poem and its significance. Can anyone please help me identify the main theme in this poem and its significance?Slow Reader by Vicki FeaverHe can make sculpturesAnd fabulous machinesInvent games, tell jokesGive solumn, adult adviceBut he is slow to read.When I take him on my kneeWith his Ladybird bookHe gazes into the airSighing and.
Vicki Feaver (born 1943 in Nottingham) is an English poet. She has published three poetry collections. Feaver's poem Judith, from her book, Handless Maiden, was awarded the Forward Prize for Best Single Poem. The book was also the recipient of a Heinemann Prize and shortlisted for the Forward Prize.Feaver was also a recipient of a Cholmondeley Award.