Bought this specifically for discussion at a poetry group meeting, which I never made it to. Not sure I would have had much that was positive to say anyway. Nothing touched me or resonated with me and there was nothing that I liked enough to want to quote or read aloud.

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At meet up. Am assuming there is one tomorrow.

Caught at Meet-up. TBR

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BC meet-up

I didn't understand all of them, but the once i did were quite entertaining.

I have heard Vicki Feaver read her poetry on a number of occasions but have never read her books so i was delighted to pick this up at Meet-Up. Thanks McGeerts and also thanks to Triggerfish for keeping it safe for me! I usually carry a poetry book around in my handbag and that is what I'll do with this, once I've finished the book that's currently in my handbag.

Vicki Feaver is one of the finest poets currently writing in Scotland, I've heard her read a few times and was interested to read her work on the page for a change. She writes beautifully with a real sense for the sounds and rhythms of language, she uses a lot of subtle internal rhyme. She writes about relationships between men and women and between humans and the environment. I find her attitude to nature often rather disturbing. However her best poetry is stunning, like the last poem in the book The Blue Butterfly, where she sees nature in a more pleasant light than she normally does, or in this wonderful extract from Pills, where a woman has come off her medication:

She'd kneel on the lawn,
skirt soaked, rediscovering
the shades of grass; each blade -
like the seconds lost -
separate, sharp., drawing blood
from her thumb. She'd gaze at organges
as people gaze at statues of Christ
on the Cross: the brilliant rinds -
packed with juice, flesh, pips -
exploding like grenades,
like brains, like trapped gases
at the surface of the sun.


I have some friends who'd like to read this.

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Off to AutumnWitch, who should enjoy this! Happy Birthday!