Description
The title of Vicki Feaver’s remarkable new collection derives from Blake’s illustration of a child standing with one foot on a ladder to the moon, crying ‘I want! I want!’. In the title poem it represents her childhood ambition to be a poet; in another, she rejects pressure towards achievement and longs to return to the sensual world of the earth. This startlingly honest book follows the ladder of a life for 75 years, in poems that show how much is connected.








The Silvering
Luck Is the Hook
Poems
You Can't Take an Elephant on the Bus
Counting Backwards
Signs Like This