Fleur Adcock : Collected Poems.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Adcock, Fleur.

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource (829 pages)

Place of Publication:

La Vergne : Bloodaxe Books, 2024.

Summary:

Fleur Adcock (1934-2024) was one of Britain's most accomplished poets, unmasking the deceptions of love and unravelling family lives through her poised, ironic poems. This first complete edition of her poetry was published on her 90th birthday, and updates her earlier retrospective, Poems 1960-2000 , with five later collections published by Bloodaxe, along with 20 new poems. Born in New Zealand, Fleur Adcock 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 tackled political issues with honest indignation and caustic wit. 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 Among the Astronomers' and 'Things'.

Contents:

Intro

About the Author

Title Page

Copyright

Contents

Early Poems From: The Eye of the Hurricane (1964) and Tigers (1967)

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 (1971)

A Game

Bogyman

Clarendon Whatmough

A Surprise in the Peninsula

Purple 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 (1974)

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 Net

An Illustration to Dante

Tokens

Naxal

Bodnath

External Service

Flying Back

Near Creeslough

Kilmacrenan

Glenshane

The Inner Harbour (1979)

Beginnings

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

Endings

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

The Thing Itself

Dry Spell

Visited

The Soho Hospital for Women

Variations on a Theme of Horace

A Walk in the Snow

A Day in October

House-talk

Foreigner

In the Dingle Peninsula

In the Terai

River

To and Fro

The Inner Harbour

Immigrant

Settlers

Going Back

Instead of an Interview

Londoner

To Marilyn from London

Below Loughrigg (1979)

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 (1983)

In the Unicorn, Ambleside

Downstream

The Hillside

This Ungentle Music

The Ring

Corrosion

4 May 1979

Madmen

Shakespeare's Hotspur

Nature Table

Revision

Influenza

Crab

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 (1986)

Hotspur

Notes

The Incident Book (1986)

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

Schools

Halfway Street, Sidcup

St Gertrude's, Sidcup

Scalford School

Salfords, Surrey

Outwood

On the School Bus

Earlswood

Scalford Again

Neston

Chippenham

Tunbridge Wells

The High Tree

Telling Tales

Drowning

'Personal Poem'

An Epitaph

Being Taken from the Place

Accidents

On the Land

Icon

Drawings

The Telephone Call

Incidentals.

Excavations

Pastoral

Kissing

Double-take

Choices

Thatcherland

Street Scene, London N2

Gentlemen's Hairdressers

Post Office

Demonstration

Witnesses

Last Song

Time-Zones (1991)

Counting

Libya

What May Happen

My Father

Cattle in Mist

Toads

Under the Lawn

Wren Song

Next Door

Helianthus Scaberrimus

House-martins

Wildlife

Turnip-heads

The Batterer

Roles

Happiness

Coupling

The Greenhouse Effect

The Last Moa

Creosote

Central Time

The Breakfast Program

From the Demolition Zone

On the Way to the Castle

Romania

Causes

The Farm

Aluminium

A Hymn to Friendship

Smokers for Celibacy

Mrs Fraser's Frenzy

Meeting the Comet

Looking Back (1997)

I

Where They Lived

Framed

The Russian War

227 Peel Green Road

Nellie

Mary Derry

Moses Lambert: The Facts

Samuel Joynson

Amelia

Barber

Flames

Water

A Haunting

The Wars

Sub Sepibus

Anne Welby

Beanfield

Ancestor to Devotee

Frances

At Great Hampden

At Baddesley Clinton

Traitors

Swings and Roundabouts

Peter Wentworth in Heaven

II

Tongue Sandwiches

The Pilgrim Fathers

Paremata

Camping

Bed and Breakfast

Rats

Stockings

A Political Kiss

An Apology

Festschrift

Offerings

Danger: Swimming and Boating Prohibited

Risks

Blue Footprints in the Snow

Summer in Bucharest

Moneymore

The Voices

Willow Creek

Giggling

Trio

The Video

New Poems (2000)

Easter

High Society

For Meg

A Visiting Angel

It's Done This!

Kensington Gardens

Dragon Talk (2010)

Dragon Talk

My First Twenty Years

Kuaotunu

Linseed

Illiterate

Food

Lollies

Rangiwahia

Drury Goodbyes

3 September 1939

Sidcup, 1940

My First Letter

Ambulance Attendant.

Off Duty at the Depot

Just in Case

Fake Fur

A Rose Tree

Glass

Casein

Glitterwax

Bananas

Clay

The Mill Stream

Morrison Shelter

Direct Hit

Mr Dolman

Tunbridge Wells Girls' Grammar

Frant

Biro

Woodside Way

Sidcup Again

August 1945

Signature

On the SS Arawa

Unrationed

The Table

Back from the War

Temporary

Strangers on a Tram

Her First Ball

Precautions

Next

Miramar

Summer Pudding

Lost

That Butterfly

An Observation

Outside the Crematorium

A Petition

To the Robins

A Garland for Rosa

Fast Forward

Glass Wings (2013)

At the Crossing

For Michael at 70

An 80th Birthday Card for Roy

Finding Elizabeth Rainbow

Spuggies

Fox

The Saucer

The Belly Dancer

Ingeburg

Alfred

Match Girl

Alumnae Notes

Nominal Aphasia

Walking Stick

Macular Degeneration

Mrs Baldwin

Charon

Having Sex with the Dead

Testators

Robert Harington, 1558

Anthony Cave, 1558

Alice Adcock, 1673

Luke Sharpe, 1704

William Clayton, 1725

James Heyes, 1726

Henry Eggington, 1912

William Dick Mackley

The Translator

Intestate

Campbells

Elegy for Alistair

Port Charles

What the 1950s Were Like

The Royal Visit

The Professor of Music

Coconut Matting

Epithalamium

A Novelty

My Life With Arthropods

Wet feet

Dung Beetle

Caterpillars

Stag Beetle

Praying Mantis

Flea

Hoppy

Stick Insects

To the Mosquitoes of Auckland

Crayfish

Slaters

Ella's Crane-Flies

Orb Web

My Grubby Little Secret

In Provence

Unmentionable

Phobia

Blowflies

Bat Soup

Lepidoptera

Bees' Nest

Dragonfly

The Land Ballot (2014)

Where the Farm Was

The Sower

The Pioneer

Sam's Diary

District News, I

Bedtime Story

The Fencer

This Lovely Glen.

Migrants

A Manchester Child

Baggage

Celebrations

The School

Mr Honoré

District News, II

The School Journal

Fruit

Mount Pirongia Surveyed

The Obvious Solution

Milk

The Bush Fire

Beryl

Cousins

Telegraphese

The Family Bible

Bush Fairies

Settlers' Museum

Evenings with Mother

The Buggy

Eight Things Eva Will Never Do Again

Eva Remembers Her Two Brothers Called James

Eva Remembers Her Little Sisters

The Germans

Brown Sugar

Supporting Our Boys

Armistice Day

The Way Forward

The Hopeful Author

A Friend of the New

Shorthand

The Bible Student

A Profile

District News, III

Mr S. Adcock

The Probationer

Te Awamutu Road Rant

The Sensational

The Kea Gun

Sole Charge

The Plain and Fancy Dress Ball

The Swimmer

Visiting the Ridgeways

Reconstituting Eva

Ragwort

Walking Off

The Roads Again

The Hall: A Requiem

Barton Cottage, 1928

Cyril's Bride

Nostalgia Trip, 1976

Jubilee Booklet, 1989

The Archive

State Highway 31

Hoard (2017)

Loot

Mnemonic

Her Usual Hand

Six Typewriters

Flat-Warming Party, 1958

The Anaesthetist

The Second Wedding

The Sleeping Bag

A Game of 500

La Contessa Scalza

North London Polytechnic

Election, 1964

Kidnapped

Ann Jane's Husband

Mother's Knee

Camisoles

The March

You, Ellen

III

Hortus

A Spinney

Fox-Light

Albatross

Cheveux de Lin

My Erstwhile Fans

The Bookshop

Maulden Church Meadow

Oscar and Henry

Real Estate

The Lipstick

Hair

Pacifiers

Bender

Hot Baths

Standedge

Hic Iacet

IV

Pakiri

Helensville

Ruakaka

Blue Stars

Fowlds Park

Mercer

Alfriston

Thames

Raglan

Miramar Revisited

Carterton

Tinakori Road

High Rise.

The Old Government Buildings.

Notes:

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Other Format:

Print version: Adcock, Fleur Fleur Adcock: Collected Poems

ISBN:

1-78037-685-5

OCLC:

1419062262