Fleur Adcock

Poems 1960–2000

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Fleur Adcock is one of Britain's most accomplished poets. Her poised, ironic poems are tense and tightly controlled as well as shrewdly laconic, and often chilling as she unmasks the deceptions of love or unravels family lives. Disarmingly conversational in style, they are remarkable for their psychological insight and their unsentimental, mischievously casual view of personal relationships. Born in New Zealand, she has explored questions of identity and rootedness throughout her work, both in relation to her personal allegiances to her native and adopted countries as well as her family history, whose long-dead characters she brings to life. She has also written movingly of birth, death and bereavement, and has tackled political issues with honest indignation and caustic wit. This first Collected edition of her poetry replaces her “Selected Poems”, with the addition of work from her later Oxford collections “The Incident Book”, “Time-Zones” and “Looking Back”. It does not cover her later collection «Dragon
Talk” (2010).
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224 printed pages
Original publication
2011
Publication year
2011
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  • Menna Abu Zahrahas quoted4 years ago
    Do we, then, assume,
    finding Propertius tear-sodden and jealous,
    that Cynthia was inexorably callous?
  • Menna Abu Zahrahas quoted4 years ago
    Acknowledgements are due to the editors of the following publications in which some of the previously uncollected poems in the New Poems section first appeared: Landfall, Last Words (Picador, 1999), Poetry Ireland, Poetry Review and Salt. ‘A Visiting Angel’ was commissioned by Salisbury Festival for the Last
  • Menna Abu Zahrahas quoted4 years ago
    Fleur Adcock is one of Britain’s most accomplished poets.
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