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'Thin beautifully etched ice - over such deep shocking water.' Ted Hughes
The long-awaited third collection from one of England's finest women poets.
Vicki Feaver was born in Nottingham in 1943 and studied at Durham and University College, London. She has published three collections: Close Relatives (1981), The Handless Maiden (1994), winner of the Heinemann Award and shortlisted for the Forward Prize, and The Book of Blood (2006), which was shortlisted for both the Forward Prize and theCosta Poetry Award. The Handless Maiden includes the poem 'Judith', winner of the Forward Prize for Best Single Poem. In 1993 she was awarded a Hawthornden Fellowship and in 1999 a Cholmondeley Award.