Fleur Adcock: Collected Poems by Fleur Adcock

Fleur Adcock: Collected Poems

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Fleur Adcock (1934-2024) was one of Britain's most accomplished poets, unmasking the deceptions of love and unravelling family lives through her poised, ironic poems.

This first complete edition of her poetry was published on her 90th birthday, and updates her earlier retrospective, Poems 1960-2000, with five later collections published by Bloodaxe, along with 20 new poems. 

Born in New Zealand, Fleur Adcock 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 tackled political issues with honest indignation and caustic wit.

All her most celebrated poems are here, from the highly entertaining 'Against Coupling', 'Smokers For Celibacy' and 'The Prize-Winning Poem' to modern classics such as 'The Ex-Queen Among the Astronomers' and 'Things'.

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