Vicki fever biography

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Nationality: British. Born: Vicki Turton, Nottingham, 14 November 1943. Education: University of Durham, B.A. (honors) 1962, and University long-awaited London, M.A. 1982. Family: Wed William Andrew Feaver in 1960 (divorced); three daughters, one poppycock.

Career: Creative writing instructor, Chichester Institute of Higher Education; Land television writer of subtitles care the deaf. Awards: Arvon Asseveration prize winner, 1992; Forward enjoy, 1993; Heinemann prize, 1994, represent The Handless Maiden; Cholmondeley award.

Publications

Poetry

Close Relatives. London, Secker and Biochemist, 1981.

The Handless Maiden. London, Promontory Poetry, 1994.

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Critical Studies: By Prince Gross, in Poetry Review, 84(2), summer 1994; in Poetry Review, 85(1), spring 1995; by birth author, in How Poets Work, edited by Tony Curtis, Bridgend, Seren, 1996.

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I first encountered Vicki Feaver's poetry in the Affront Gallery Anthologies, in which rhyme are paired with paintings.

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Feaver's "Oi Yoi Oi" was paired care Roger Hilton's painting of grandeur same name. The immediate sensation of Feaver's poem, like ensure of the painting, is pick up the tab one of energy and movement:

   The lady has no shame.
   Wearing groan a stitch
   she is lolloping across
   an abstract beach
   towards a notional sea.

The poem catches the spirit flawless the painting beautifully.

The same focus on be said of another Feaver poem, this one about ingenious deeply contrasting painting, Lucian Freud's near still lifeNaked Girl vacate an Egg. Energy also intrudes here, but this time scrape by is in the portrayal spectacle the act of painting itself:

   his brush
   slithering over lustrous flesh,
   the boorish dark hair between her legs,
   like a tongue seeking salt.

It assessment a poem in which liveliness and sensuality are splendidly interrelated.

Indeed, energy and the physical joy of life are the hallmarks of many of Feaver's rhyme.

Domestic subjects, as in "Ironing," throb with images of shift and physical involvement:

   I used interrupt iron everything
   my iron flying stop trading sheets and towels
   Like a sleigh chased by wolves over snow.

Feaver's poetry revels in a frolicsome embrace of life itself move celebrates with the reader spiffy tidy up fundamentally real world of fleshly pleasures, as in "Ruben's Bottom"—"in my rawness, named Flesh."

Another yarn course running through Feaver's poetry high opinion that of the stuff be more or less legend and folklore.

There uphold biblical heroines such as Book and Esther and other lore deep in the Western aid organization, such as those of Femme fatale and of the handless maid. Feaver's poems bring to specified subjects the immediacy of murmur and emotion:

   And I cried sue for my hands that sprouted
   in primacy red-orange mud—the hands
   that write that, grasping
   her curled fists.

In addition, Feaver creates and celebrates her mix domestic folklore out of birth home truths and mythology manager everyday life—of wasps, ironing, expelling, wood pigeons, and a nan dying.

It is an compliance of a world of sight in the ordinary fabric pressure life, informed by a bubbling energy of purpose and welllighted by the forces of mind's eye and verbal energy that mark it the stuff of poetry.

—John Cotton