The Naomi Mitchison Memorial Lecture 2010
Presented by Scottish PEN in association with the Creative Writing Programme of the University of Glasgow
'Like a Fiend hid in a Cloud'
Bernard MacLaverty introduces Professor Vicki Feaver, the highly-acclaimed and award-winning poet.
Professor Feaver will consider the contrary voice of the child and the challenge of capturing it in poetry, as well as reading new work on the theme of childhood. She will discuss how many of her poems have their basis in childhood - in what she read (fairy stories, the Bible, Blake, etc) and in her own experience, especially of nature. She will also refer to poems about childhood that have influenced her, including those of Blake, Wordsworth, Dylan Thomas, Stevie Smith, Roethke and Sharon Olds.
Wednesday 24 November 2010
Reception at 5.30pm in the Anatomy Museum of the University of Glasgow. Event begins 6pm in the Anatomy Lecture Theatre.
All welcome!
Poet Vicki Feaver was born in Nottingham in 1943 and educated at Durham University and University College, London. She is the author of three poetry collections: Close Relatives (1981); The Handless Maiden (1994), winner of the Heinemann Award and shortlisted for the Forward Poetry Prize for Best Poetry Collection of the Year; and The Book of Blood (2006), shortlisted for the 2006 Costa Poetry Award. The Handless Maiden includes the poems 'Lily Pond', winner of the Arvon Foundation International Poetry Competition, and 'Judith', winner of the Forward Poetry Prize for Best Single Poem. In 1993 she was awarded a Hawthornden Fellowship and in 1999 a Cholmondeley Award. Her work has also been included in several contemporary poetry anthologies including Penguin Modern Poets 2 (1995) (with Carol Ann Duffy and Eavan Boland), After Ovid (1996), an anthology of several translations of Ovid's Metamorphoses, and The Penguin Book of Poetry from Britain and Ireland since 1945 (1998). Professor Feaver has also published essays on the process of writing and on 20th-century women poets. She is a former tutor of Creative Writing at University College, Chichester, and now lives in South Lanarkshire, Scotland.
Visit The Poetry Archive to find out more: http://www.poetryarchive.org/poetryarchive/singlePoet.do?poetId=161
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