The Yellow Kite

The Yellow Kite is Vicki Feaver’s first collection since she was diagnosed with Parkinson’s: a series of poems that deal unflinchingly with her condition – she adopts the moniker ‘Shaking Woman’ and looks the disease straight in the eye, as enemy, as friend, as an entity to be explored. The total lack of self-pity, the wit and the curiosity temper any grumpiness. There is beauty too.