Bøger af Fleur Adcock

Fleur Adcock is one of Britain's best-known poets. Hoard is her fourth Bloodaxe collection since Poems 1960-2000, following Dragon Talk (2010), Glass Wings (2013) and The Land Ballot (2015).

A land ballot was the means by which Fleur Adcock's grandparents 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. This sequence of poems follows the course of their efforts and builds up a portrait of a small, isolated community.

Book-length sequence by one of Britain's leading poets about the life and hard times of her grandparents farming in New Zealand, her third book since Poems 1960-2000.

Fleur Adcock is one of Britain's leading poets. Her second new collection since Poems 1960-2000 - which won her the Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry - has poems on insects, family and ancestors. Poetry Book Society Recommendation.

Fleur Adcock is one of Britain's best-known poets. "Dragon Talk" was her first new book since "Poems 1960-2000", for which she received the Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry in 2006.

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.