Poems, 1960-2000 Adcock Fleur
Poems, 1960-2000 Adcock Fleur Fleur Adcock is one of Britain's most accomplished poets. Disarmingly conversational in style, they are remarkable for their psychological insight and their…
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Poems, 1960-2000 Adcock Fleur
Fleur Adcock is one of Britain's most accomplished poets. 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. 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.
She has also written movingly of birth, death and bereavement, and has tackled political issues with honest indignation and caustic