Download or read book Dragon Talk written by Fleur Adcock and published by Bloodaxe Books Limited. This book was released on 2010 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After the appearance of Fleur Adcock's Poems 1960-2000 she wrote no more poems for several years. This cessation coincided with - but was not entirely caused by - her giving up smoking. When poetry returned to her in 2003 it tended towards a sparer, more concentrated style. This new collection continues to reflect her preoccupations with family matters and with her ambivalent feelings about her native New Zealand. Her initial inspiration was the letters her father wrote home from England to his parents during World War II, which evoked her own memories of that era. The central sequence moves from her first coming to consciousness in New Zealand up to and through the war years in Britain and on to sketches from her teens in puritanical postwar Wellington after her reluctant return - not without her usual sardonic eye for incongruities and absurdities. There are also affectionate poems for her grandchildren and her late mother.
Download or read book Poems 1960 2000 written by Fleur Adcock and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book Fleur Adcock written by Janet Wilson and published by Northcote House Pub Limited. This book was released on 2007 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A study of Fleur Adcock as a poet of dual New Zealand and British nationality writing within the mainstream with the eye of an outsider.
Download or read book Glass Wings written by Fleur Adcock and published by Bloodaxe Books Limited. This book was released on 2013 with total page 79 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a new collection of poems by one of Britain's leading poets, Fleur Adcock. It contains poems on insects, family and ancestors.
Download or read book In Person written by Neil Astley and published by Bloodaxe Books. This book was released on 2008 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "IN PERSON presents contemporary poetry to readers in a totally new way, with short films of 30 living poets reading their work on two DVDs. [...] an anthology/DVD combination with all the poems from the films includes in the book.
Download or read book Looking Back written by Fleur Adcock and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the first part of this book, her first since Time Zones (OUP, 1991),Adcock looks at some of her ancestors, from relatively recent figures strugglingwith hardship and family tragedies in 19th-century Manchester, through rurallives in Midlands villages, to a few prominent heroes and villains inElizabethan and medieval times. In the second section she returns to morecontemporary subjects, such as sex and dreaming - familiar topics of thisunsettled but unsparing poet.
Download or read book The Faber Book of 20th Century Women s Poetry written by Fleur Adcock and published by London ; Boston : Faber and Faber. This book was released on 1987-01 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gathers poems by Hilda Doolittle, Marianne Moore, Edna St Vincent Millay, Louise Bogan, Stevie Smith, Maxine Kumin, Adrienne Rich, Sylvia Plath, and Margaret Atwood
Download or read book Hugh Primas and the Archpoet written by Hugo Primas (Aurelianensis) and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1994-11-03 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Renowned poet Fleur Adcock here provides modern verse translations of the complete work of two of the most exciting poets of the twelfth century, Hugh Primas of Orleans and the so-called Archpoet, beside their Latin originals. Included are witty epigrams, treatments of classical themes, poems on religious and ecclesiastical topics, depictions of low life, begging-poems, and the Archpoet's famous Confession. The work is characterised by its liveliness and its touches of satire and coarse realism, features which Fleur Adcock captures superbly in her modern renderings. There are textual notes, explanatory notes, a historical note, and an introduction. This unique resource will appeal not only to medievalists but to all lovers of poetry.
Download or read book The Land Ballot written by Fleur Adcock and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 95 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A land ballot was the means by which Fleur Adcock's grandparents, immigrants from Manchester during World War I, were able to bid for a piece of native bush on the slopes of Mount Pirongia in the North Island of New Zealand. Their task was to turn this unpromising acreage into a dairy farm. When things didn't work out as they had hoped much of the responsibility for running the farm and engineering their eventual escape fell on their teenage son, Adcock's father. This sequence of poems follows the course of their efforts and builds up a portrait of a small, isolated community.
Download or read book The Mermaid s Purse written by Fleur Adcock and published by . This book was released on 2021-02-25 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fleur Adcock wrote these poems during the four years before the COVID-19 pandemic put a stop to them. The two chief settings are New Zealand, with its multi-coloured seas, and Britain, seen in various decades. There are foreign travels, flirtations, family memories, deaths and conversations with the dead. Katherine Mansfield, incognito, dodges an academic conference; there's a lesson in water divining as well as a rather unusual Christmas party. We meet several varieties of small mammal, numerous birds, doomed or otherwise, and some sheep. The book ends with a sequence in memory of her friend, the poet Roy Fisher.
Download or read book The Virgin and the Nightingale written by Fleur Adcock and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Wonderful verse translations of medieval Latin lyrics.
Download or read book The Oxford Book of Creatures written by Fleur Adcock and published by . This book was released on 1997-10 with total page 387 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of verse and prose from writers ranging from Aristotle to Orwell on every variety of animal from microbe to mouse.
Download or read book The Incident Book written by Fleur Adcock and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1986 with total page 70 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The incidents in this collection range from childhood experiences and family events through glimpses of steet life in Thatcher's Britain to deaths and premonitions of death, individual and universal, under the shadow of the nuclear threat. There is a group of fictional narratives, and a handful of the erotic, or, more properly, anti-erotic poems for which ... Adcock is well-known. There are also celebrations of places, reflections on art and language, and affectionate tributes to friends."--Back cover.
Download or read book Hoard written by Fleur Adcock and published by . This book was released on 2017-10-12 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 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 most recent poems in the book recall Adcock's visits around the North Island in 2015, affirming her renewed although not uncritical affection for the country of her birth.
Download or read book Fleur Adcock written by Fleur Adcock and published by . This book was released on 2024 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "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 Bloodaxe Books (UK) on the occasion of Fleur Adcock's 90th birthday on 10 February 2024. Adcock writes about men and women, childhood, identity, roots and rootlessness, memory and loss, animals and dreams, as well as our interactions with nature and place. Her poised, ironic poems are remarkable for their wry wit, conversational tone and psychological insight, unmasking the deceptions of love or unravelling family lives."--
Download or read book Tools of the Trade written by Samuel Tongue and published by Polygon. This book was released on 2022-07-05 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Being a doctor is a privilege; it is also very demanding and can be stressful, and to be able to look after others, we need to look after ourselves. We offer you this little book of poetry, Tools of the Trade, as a friend to provide inspiration, comfort and support as you begin work. Tools of the Trade includes poems by poet-doctors Iain Bamforth, Rafael Campo, Glenn Colquhoun, Martin MacIntryre and Gael Turnbull.
Download or read book Selected Poems written by Fleur Adcock and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1983 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fleur Adcock's poetry has been widely admired for its combination of verbal precision and technical control with a wide range of subject matter and tone. This volume includes a selection of early work from her first two collections. together with a substantial representation from her three most recent collections, High Tide in the Garden, The Scenic Route, and The Inner Harbour, all now unavailable. In addition, this volume includes 26 new poems. "Her poems seem to rest on the page with a special lenient grace."--Peter Porter, Observer. "The most talented woman poet now writing in Britain."--Gavin Ewart
