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Fleur Adcock
This expanded edition of Fleur Adcock's Collected Poems, first published in hardback in 2019, includes her latest collection The Mermaid's Purse, and twenty new poems. It is published simultaneously with…
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Fleur Adcock is one of Britain's most accomplished poets. Published on her 90th birthday, this first complete edition of her poetry supersedes her earlier retrospective, Poems 1960-2000, with the addition…
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Fleur Adcock began writing the poems in this book when she was 82. The two chief settings are New Zealand, with its multi-coloured seas, and Britain, seen in various decades…
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Janet Wilson
Discusses Adcock as a writer who draws on her experiences of dislocation in order to position herself between cultures. This study emphasizes that the radically displaced feminized consciousness which negotiates…
A land ballot was the means by which Fleur Adcock’s grandparents were able to bid for a piece of native bush on the slopes of Mount Pirongia in the North…
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Fleur Adcock is one of Britain’s best-known poets. Dragon Talk is her first new book since Poems 1960-2000 , for which she received the Queen’s Gold Medal for Poetry in…
Fleur Adcock is one of Britain’s leading poets. Her second new collection since Poems 1960-2000 - which won her the Queen’s Gold Medal for Poetry - has poems on insects…
Fleur Adcock is one of Britain’s best-known poets. Hoard is her fourth Bloodaxe collection since Poems 1960-2000, following Dragon Talk (2010), Glass Wings (2013) and The Land Ballot (2015).
Renowned poet Fleur Adcock provides modern verse translations of the complete work of two of the most exciting poets of the twelfth century, beside the Latin originals, brilliantly capturing their…
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Book-length sequence by one of Britain’s leading poets about the life and hard times of her grandparents farming in New Zealand, her third book since Poems 1960-2000.
Conversational in style and shrewdly laconic, this collection of Fleur Adcock’s poetry offers psychological insights into the deceptions of love, personal relationships and family life.
Hoard brings together poems Fleur Adcock had to keep under wraps for several years because they didn’t suit the themes of her last two collections, The Land Ballot and Glass…
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Fleur Adcock’s Collected Poems is a landmark publication in the career of one of New Zealand’s most significant writers, combining Poems 1960-2000 and four subsequent collections in one beautifully produced…
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Peter Hepplewhite
Wonderful verse translations of medieval Latin lyrics.
Cambridge Literature is a series of literary texts edited for study in English-speaking classrooms.
The Best British Poetry 2012 presents the finest and most engaging poems found in literary magazines and webzines over the past year. The material gathered represents the rich variety of…
Foreword by Michael McGregor, Director of the Wordsworth Trust. Contains poetry by: S T Coleridge, Dorothy and William Wordsworth, and other more recent Dove Cottage residents including Simon Armitage, Gerard…
