Vicki Feaver

Vicki Feaver was born in Nottingham in 1943. Her poetry collections include Close Relatives (Secker, 1981); The Handless Maiden (Cape Poetry, 1994), winner of the Heinemann Award; The Book of Blood (Cape Poetry, 2006), shortlisted for the Forward Prize and Costa Award for Poetry; and I Want! I Want! (Cape Poetry, 2019). In 1993 she was awarded a Hawthornden Fellowship and in 1999 a Cholmondeley Award. She lives in Scotland.