Poems: 1960-2000.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Adcock, Fleur

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Poetry--Collections.

Poetry.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Place of Publication:

Newcastle-upon-Tyne : Bloodaxe Books, 2000.

Summary:

Fleur 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 h

Contents:

Cover; Description; Title Page; Table of Contents; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; THE EYE OF THE HURRICANE; Note on Propertius; Flight, with Mountains; Beauty Abroad; Knife-play; Instructions to Vampires; Incident; Unexpected Visit; For Andrew; For a Five-Year-Old; Comment; Miss Hamilton in London; The Man Who X-Rayed an Orange; Composition for Words and Paint; Regression; I Ride on My High Bicycle; Parting Is Such Sweet Sorrow; Hauntings; Advice to a Discarded Lover; The Water Below; Think Before You Shoot; The Pangolin; HIGH TIDE IN THE GARDEN; A Game; Bogyman; Clarendon Whatmough

A Surprise in the PeninsulaPurple Shining Lilies; Afterwards; Happy Ending; Being Blind; Grandma; Ngauranga Gorge Hill; Stewart Island; On a Son Returned to New Zealand; Saturday; Trees; Country Station; The Three-toed Sloth; Against Coupling; Mornings After; Gas; THE SCENIC ROUTE; The Bullaun; Please Identify Yourself; Richey; The Voyage Out; Train from the Hook of Holland; Nelia; Moa Point; Briddes; The Famous Traitor; Script; In Memoriam: James K. Baxter; St John's School; Pupation; The Drought Breaks; Kilpeck; Feverish; Folie à Deux; Acris Hiems; December Morning; Showcase; Over the Edge

The NetAn Illustration to Dante; Tokens; Naxal; Bodnath; External Service; Flying Back; Near Creeslough; Kilmacrenan; Glenshane; THE INNER HARBOUR; Future Work; Our Trip to the Federation; Mr Morrison; Things; A Way Out; Prelude; Accidental; A Message; Proposal for a Survey; Fairy-tale; At the Creative Writing Course; The Ex-Queen Among the Astronomers; Off the Track; Beaux Yeux; Send-off; In Focus; Letter from Highgate Wood; Poem Ended by a Death; Having No Mind for the Same Poem; Syringa; Dry Spell; Visited; The Soho Hospital for Women; Variations on a Theme of Horace; A Walk in the Snow

A Day in OctoberHouse-talk; Foreigner; In the Dingle Peninsula; In the Terai; River; The Inner Harbour; Immigrant; Settlers; Going Back; Instead of an Interview; Londoner; To Marilyn from London; BELOW LOUGHRIGG; Below Loughrigg; Three Rainbows in One Morning; Binoculars; Paths; Mid-point; The Spirit of the Place; The Vale of Grasmere; Letter to Alistair Campbell; Declensions; Weathering; Going out from Ambleside; SELECTED POEMS; In the Unicorn, Ambleside; Downstream; The Hillside; This Ungentle Music; The Ring; Corrosion; 4 May 1979; Madmen; Shakespeare's Hotspur; Nature Table; Revision

InfluenzaCrab; Eclipse; On the Border; The Prize-winning Poem; An Emblem; Piano Concerto in E Flat Major; Villa Isola Bella; Lantern Slides; Dreaming; Street Song; Across the Moor; Bethan and Bethany; Blue Glass; Mary Magdalene and the Birds; HOTSPUR; Hotspur; Notes; THE INCIDENT BOOK; Uniunea Scriitorilor; Leaving the Tate; The Bedroom Window; The Chiffonier; Tadpoles; For Heidi with Blue Hair; The Keepsake; England's Glory; The Genius of Surrey; Loving Hitler; Halfway Street, Sidcup; St Gertrude's, Sidcup; Scalford School; Salfords, Surrey; Outwood; On the School Bus; Earlswood

Scalford Again

Notes:

Preliminaries omitted.

ISBN:

9781780370040

1780370040

OCLC:

779827548