The Book of Blood

Split between dark and light, this book records the dichotomy of human experience with unflinching force and clarity. It deals with break-up, depression, illness and death. But it also reveals an intense involvement with nature and a capacity for healing and love. There are intimate personal poems reflecting on relationships with people and creatures; poems which enter the lives of real and imaginary characters, Keats and Medea and Blodeuwedd, for example; and also poems which engage with paintings and political events.

Set in a territory which connects child with adult, myth with reality, the personal with the universal, the book shows a poet fully open to the richness and possibilities of the world but also aware of its violence and pain, not as a remote observer but as someone who is a part of it.

Title - The Book of Blood

Edition -

Author - Vicki Feaver

ISBN 13 - 9780224076845

Imprint - Jonathan Cape Ltd

Publisher - Vintage Publishing

Date Published - 27/04/2006

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No. of pages -

Binding Type - Paperback

Dimensions - 128 x 200 x 12mm

Weight - 100 g

Languages - English