Fleur Adcock

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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.
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30 printed pages
Original publication
2014
Publication year
2014
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    just off to a lecture on Beowulf.
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    (I am not making this up,
    and you are too young to think it odd.)
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    You were no showy beauty, dear mother,
    but your personality was bright rainbow,
    and your kindness had velvety wings.

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