
Monday, February 22, 2010
Vicki Feaver is one of those poets that can seemingly run a current of electricity through the page. Her poems positively crackle and fizz through one’s senses and perceptions:
I used to iron everything:
My iron flying over sheets and towels
Like sledge chased by wolves over snow,
The flex twisting and crinking
Until the sheath frayed, exposing
Wires like nerves. I stood like a horse
With a smoking hoof....
In her course in April she will be looking at “our obsessions, the things that provoke our strongest emotions such as our feelings for a person or place, or our childhood memories, or our griefs and losses – poetic tinder for our most powerful poetry”
April 10th to 17th promises to be a riveting week. There are still places available.
Vicki will also be reading at Alicante University, La Seu auditorium in C/Purissima 57-59, Benissa, Alicante on Friday the 9th April. 6.30 p.m
‘Poetic Tinder’ – A residential poetry course with Vicki Feaver
Almassera Vella April 10th -17th 2010
Vicki’s poetry collections with Cape Poetry:
Close Relatives
The Handless Maiden
The Book of Blood
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