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By Fleur Adcock

ISBN-10: 1852245298

ISBN-13: 9781852245290

ISBN-10: 1852245301

ISBN-13: 9781852245306

Fleur Adcock is one in all Britain's such a lot finished poets. Her poised, ironic poems are demanding and tightly managed in addition to shrewdly laconic, and sometimes chilling as she unmasks the deceptions of affection or unravels relations lives. Disarmingly conversational common, they're extraordinary for his or her mental perception and their unsentimental, mischievously informal view of private relationships. Born in New Zealand, she has explored questions of id and rootedness all through her paintings, either on the subject of her own allegiances to her local and followed nations in addition to her relations historical past, whose long-dead characters she brings to lifestyles. She has additionally written movingly of start, demise and bereavement, and has tackled political matters with sincere indignation and caustic wit. this primary accrued version of her poetry replaces her "Selected Poems", with the addition of labor from her later Oxford collections "The Incident Book", "Time-Zones" and "Looking Back". It doesn't conceal her later assortment "Dragon
Talk" (2010).

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