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