
- 288 pages
- English
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Poems 1960-2000
About this book
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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Table of contents
- Cover
- Description
- Title Page
- Table of Contents
- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
- THE EYE OF THE HURRICANE
- HIGH TIDE IN THE GARDEN
- THE SCENIC ROUTE
- THE INNER HARBOUR
- BELOW LOUGHRIGG
- SELECTED POEMS
- HOTSPUR
- THE INCIDENT BOOK
- TIME-ZONES
- LOOKING BACK
- NEW POEMS
- Index of titles and first lines
- By the Same Author
- About the Author
- Copyright