{"product_id":"the-book-of-blood-9780224076845","title":"The Book of Blood","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eSplit 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSet 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEveryday subjects resonate with truth and humour, but beneath the beautiful words are deep, dark and shocking truths * The Herald *\u003cbr\u003eViolence stalks the book -- Colin Waters * Sunday Herald *\u003cbr\u003eVicki Feaver's poems always come back to contemporary relationships - not so much domestic as domestic gothic, where the women are sensual and murderous. These are powerfully distinctive poems, women's poems that don't shut out men -- Matthew Sweeney\u003cbr\u003eFeaver’s best poems offer a disquietingly direct apprehension of the powers by which we are made and driven -- Sean O'brein * The Independent *","brand":"Vintage Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48732893086039,"sku":"9780224076845","price":11.69,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780224076845.jpg?v=1719998839","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-book-of-blood-9780224076845","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}