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Hoard / Fleur Adcock.
Van Pelt Library PR9639.3.A3 A6 2017
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Adcock, Fleur, author.
- Standardized Title:
- Poems. Selections
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- English poetry--21st century.
- English poetry.
- Genre:
- Poetry.
- Physical Description:
- 80 pages ; 22 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Hexham, Northumberland : Bloodaxe Books, 2017.
- Summary:
- 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 of New Zealand in 2015, affirming her renewed although not uncritical affection for the country of her birth. Book jacket.
- Contents:
- I
- Loot 11
- Mnemonic 13
- Her Usual Hand 14
- Six Typewriters 15
- Flat-warming Party, 1958 16
- The Anaesthetist 17
- The Second Wedding 18
- The Sleeping-bag 19
- A Game of 500 20
- La Contessa Scalza 21
- North London Polytechnic 22
- Election, 1964 23
- Kidnapped 24
- II
- Ann Jane's Husband 26
- Mother's Knee 27
- Camisoles 29
- The March 30
- You, Ellen 32
- III
- Hortus 38
- A Spinney 39
- Fox-light 41
- Albatross 42
- Cheveux de Lin 44
- My Erstwhile Fans 45
- The Bookshop 46
- Maulden Church Meadow 47
- Oscar and Henry 48
- Real Estate 49
- The Lipstick 50
- Hair 51
- Pacifiers 52
- Bender 53
- Hot Baths 54
- Standedge 55
- Hic Iacet 56
- IV
- Pakiri 58
- Helensville 59
- Ruakaka 60
- Blue Stars 61
- Fowlds Park 63
- Mercer 65
- Alfriston 67
- Thames 68
- Raglan 70
- Miramar Revisited 71
- Carterton 72
- Tinakori Road 74
- High Rise 76
- The Old Government Buildings 77
- Lotus Land 79.
- Notes:
- Poems.
- ISBN:
- 9781780373966
- 1780373961
- OCLC:
- 990115637
- Publisher Number:
- 99977323203
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