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Fleur Adcock

Hoard

Fleur Adcock

Publication Date : 26 Oct 2017

Paperback

£9.95

9781780373966

Pages: 64
Size: 216 x 138mm
Rights: World exc New Zealand

Poetry Book Society Special Commendation

Hoard brings together poems Fleur Adcock had to keep under wraps for several years because they didn’t suit the themes of her previous two collections, The Land Ballot and Glass Wings. They include reflections on the tools of her trade (handwriting, typewriters), snatches of autobiography (a brief, ill-considered second marriage followed by her migration from New Zealand to England in 1963), and poems on trees, wildlife and everyday objects. Ellen Wilkinson, who led the Jarrow March in 1936, makes two appearances, joining Coleridge, several ancestors and two dogs. The later poems in the book recall Adcock's visits around the North Island of New Zealand in 2015, affirming her renewed although not uncritical affection for the country of her birth.

Fleur Adcock (1934-2024) was 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 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 also wrote movingly of birth, death and bereavement, and has tackled political issues with honest indignation and caustic wit.

Her first Bloodaxe retrospective, Poems 1960-2000, was followed by five further collections, all of which remain available as separate editions. They are also included in full in her Collected Poems. This first complete edition of her poetry was published on her 90th birthday in February 2024, superseding her earlier retrospective, with the addition of Dragon Talk (2010), Glass Wings (2013), The Land Ballot (2015), Hoard (2017) and The Mermaid's Purse (2021), along with a gathering of 20 new poems.

 

Fleur Adcock reads nine poems

Fleur Adcock reads nine poems from Poems 1960-2000 (Bloodaxe Books, 2000): ‘The Video’, ‘For a Five-Year-Old’, ‘The Pangolin’, ‘An Illustration to Dante’, ‘Things’, Weathering’, ‘For Heidi with Blue Hair’, ‘Where They Lived’ and Counting’.. Pamela Robertson-Pearce filmed Fleur Adcock at her home in London on 29 June 2007. This film is from the DVD-anthology In Person: 30 Poets, filmed by Pamela Robertson-Pearce & edited by Neil Astley (Bloodaxe Books, 2008). 

  

BOOKS BY Fleur Adcock

Collected Poems

Fleur Adcock

Collected Poems

Publication Date : 10 Feb 2024

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Dragon Talk

Fleur Adcock

Dragon Talk

Publication Date : 26 May 2010

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Glass Wings

Fleur Adcock

Glass Wings

Publication Date : 27 Jun 2013

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Poems 1960-2000

Fleur Adcock

Poems 1960-2000

Publication Date : 27 Apr 2000

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Fleur Adcock (1934-2024)

Fleur Adcock (1934-2024)

We are immensely saddened by news of the death of Fleur Adcock, aged 90. Tributes in The Guardian, The Telegraph, online, and on BBC Radio.

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