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Quote Snack The Quotations Page - Your Source for Famous Quotes Ironing by Vicki Feaver Vicki Feaver (b. 1943) grew up in Nottingham "in a house of quarrelling women", an emotional inheritance which finds later expression in her poetry. She studied Music at Durham University and English University College, London and worked as a lecturer in English and Creative Writing at University College, Chichester, becoming Emeritus Professor. Her collections have been highly praised, the second, The Handless Maiden, including both the Arvon International Poetry Competition finalist 'Lily Pond', and 'Judith', winner of the Forward Poetry Prize for Best Single Poem. It's perhaps significant that both of her major prize-winning poems are narrated by murderous women. Feaver has described writing as a "kind of gutting" and certainly the title of her latest collection, The Book of Blood, would suggest she remains red in tooth and claw. These poems come from a special recording made for The Poetry Archive on April 11th 2005 at The Audio Workshop, London.