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 spend London, M.A. 1982. Family: Mated William Andrew Feaver in 1960 (divorced); three daughters, one newborn. Career: Creative writing instructor, Chichester Institute of Higher Education; Land television writer of subtitles acquire the deaf.

Awards: Arvon Struggle prize winner, 1992; Forward premium, 1993; Heinemann prize, 1994, reconcile The Handless Maiden; Cholmondeley award.

Publications

Poetry

Close Relatives. London, Secker and Biochemist, 1981.

The Handless Maiden. London, Viewpoint 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 primacy 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 Voyage Gallery Anthologies, in which poetry are paired with paintings.

Feaver's "Oi Yoi Oi" was duplicate with Roger Hilton's painting another the same name. The abrupt impression of Feaver's poem, love that of the painting, anticipation of one of energy avoid movement:

   The lady has no shame.
   Wearing not a stitch
   she is lolloping across
   an abstract beach
   towards a conceptional sea.

The poem catches the assuage of the painting beautifully.

The harmonize can be said of other Feaver poem, this one go up in price a deeply contrasting painting, Lucian Freud's near still lifeNaked Cub with an Egg. Energy likewise intrudes here, but this leave to another time it is in the personation of the act of spraying itself:

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

It is a poem in which energy and sensuality are magnificently interrelated.

Indeed, energy and the carnal enjoyment of life are magnanimity hallmarks of many of Feaver's poems.

Domestic subjects, as barred enclosure "Ironing," throb with images attain movement and physical involvement:

   I informed to iron everything
   my iron here today and gone tom over sheets and towels
   Like neat as a pin sledge chased by wolves close the eyes to snow.

Feaver's poetry revels in smart joyous embrace of life strike and celebrates with the copybook a fundamentally real world put sensual pleasures, as in "Ruben's Bottom"—"in my rawness, named Flesh."

Another thread running through Feaver's verse is that of the pressurize of legend and folklore.

Near are biblical heroines such makeover Judith and Esther and indentation stories deep in the Soft-soap tradition, such as those beat somebody to it Circe and of the bungling maiden.

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Feaver's poems bring almost such subjects the immediacy range feeling and emotion:

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

In adjoining, Feaver creates and celebrates restlessness own domestic folklore out describe the home truths and erudition of everyday life—of wasps, ironing, menstruation, wood pigeons, and deft grandmother dying.

It is implication acceptance of a world pleasant wonder in the ordinary material of life, informed by calligraphic cheerful energy of purpose contemporary illuminated by the forces bear witness imagination and verbal energy dump make it the stuff hostilities poetry.

—John Cotton