# The Book of Blood

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- Authors: [Vicki Feaver](https://www.bookquiver.com/vicki-feaver)
- Language: en_GB
- Published: 2006-04-27

## Description

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.

## Editions

### The Book of Blood

- Publisher: jonathan_cape
- ISBN: 978-02-2407-684-5
- Pages: 80
- Published: 2006-04-27
- Language: en_GB