Author: BARKER, NIKKI.
Title: Heated Ice and Other Poems. (Illustrated by Yvonne Hudson).
Description: Gavarnie Publications, 1985. 0951057901. 1st edition. "The work of persuading and ordering words to communicate a personal experience of life is never easy, and Nikki has not tried to make it so by taking an easy course..At her best, as with Heated Ice, so much is conveyed by a simple economy of words it can't be faulted; or in the profound, touching casualness in anothe poem of " I know. I was there. It was just like sleeping in mother's bed." (Foreword by Christopher Fry). *First published work by Nikki Barker who has(had) the disabling condition Spinal Muscular Atrophy. Pp.36, line illustrations by Yvonne Hudson, signed by the author to title page. Stiff card covers with photo illustration to front and ring binding. VG.

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