{"product_id":"poems-1960-2000-paperback","title":"Poems, 1960-2000 - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eFleur Adcock\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eWinner of the Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry, 2006\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003ePoetry Book Society Special Commendation\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eFleur Adcock (1934-2024) was 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 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 has tackled political issues with honest indignation and caustic wit.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis first Bloodaxe retrospective of her poetry replaced an earlier \u003cem\u003eSelected Poems\u003c\/em\u003e (1986), with the addition of work from her later Oxford collections \u003cem\u003eThe Incident Book, Time-Zones\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eLooking Back\u003c\/em\u003e. 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 Amongst the Astronomers' and 'Things' - as well as the notorious one about kissing John Prescott... She published five later collections with Bloodaxe followed by a new \u003cem\u003eCollected Poems\u003c\/em\u003e published by Bloodaxe on her 90th birthday in 2024, superseding \u003cem\u003ePoems 1960-2000\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003eFleur 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. 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 Amongst the Astronomers' and 'Things' - as well as the notorious one about kissing John Prescott... She has since published five later collections with Bloodaxe.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFleur Adcock (1934-2024) was born in New Zealand in 1934. She spent the war years in England, returning with her family to New Zealand in 1947. She emigrated to Britain in 1963, working as a librarian in London until 1979. In 1977-78 she was writer-in-residence at Charlotte Mason College of Education, Ambleside. She was Northern Arts Literary Fellow in 1979-81, living in Newcastle, becoming a freelance writer after her return to London. She received an OBE in 1996, and The Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry in 2006 for \u003cem\u003ePoems 1960-2000\u003c\/em\u003e (Bloodaxe Books, 2000). In October 2019 Fleur Adcock was presented with the New Zealand Prime Minister's Award for Literary Achievement in Poetry 2019 by the Rt Hon (now Dame) Jacinda Ardern.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFleur Adcock published three pamphlets with Bloodaxe: \u003cem\u003eBelow Loughrigg\u003c\/em\u003e (1979), \u003cem\u003eHotspur\u003c\/em\u003e (1986) and \u003cem\u003eMeeting the Comet\u003c\/em\u003e (1988), as well as her translations of medieval Latin lyrics, \u003cem\u003eThe Virgin \u0026amp; the Nightingale\u003c\/em\u003e (1983). She also published two translations of Romanian poets with Oxford University Press, \u003cem\u003eOrient Express\u003c\/em\u003e by Grete Tartler (1989) and \u003cem\u003eLetters from Darkness\u003c\/em\u003e by Daniela Crasnaru (1994). All her other collections were published by Oxford University Press until they shut down their poetry list in 1999, after which Bloodaxe published her \u003cem\u003ePoems 1960-2000\u003c\/em\u003e (2000), followed by \u003cem\u003eDragon Talk\u003c\/em\u003e (2010), \u003cem\u003eGlass Wings\u003c\/em\u003e (2013), \u003cem\u003eThe Land Ballot\u003c\/em\u003e (2015), \u003cem\u003eHoard\u003c\/em\u003e (2017) and \u003cem\u003eThe Mermaid's Purse\u003c\/em\u003e (2021). \u003cem\u003ePoems 1960-2000\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eHoard\u003c\/em\u003e were Poetry Book Society Special Commendations while \u003cem\u003eGlass Wings\u003c\/em\u003e was a Poetry Book Society Recommendation. Fleur Adcock's \u003cem\u003eCollected Poems\u003c\/em\u003e was published by Bloodaxe Books in hardback and paperback on her 90th birthday, 10 February 2024. This is an expanded edition of the \u003cem\u003eCollected Poems\u003c\/em\u003e published in New Zealand in hardback only by Victoria University Press in 2019. The expanded edition was published simultaneously in New Zealand in paperback only by the same publisher, now known as Te Herenga Waka University Press.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 287\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.8 x 9.1 x 6.1 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e April 27, 2000\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47405972783282,"sku":"9781852245306","price":26.18,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0770\/3891\/1666\/files\/UDx7bhTlCa9781852245306.webp?v=1782875929","url":"https:\/\/box.dadyminds.org\/products\/poems-1960-2000-paperback","provider":"DADYMINDS BOX","version":"1.0","type":"link"}