Fleur Adcock

Standard Name: Adcock, Fleur
Birth Name: Kareen Fleur Adcock
Married Name: Kareen Fleur Campbell
Married Name: Kareen Fleur Crump
Born a New Zealander, but an Englishwoman by adoption, FA is a later twentieth-century poet. She has also done notable work as a translator, anthologist, and critic, but whereas many poets of her generation have given a major part of their attention to novels or children's writing, she has focussed on her poetry above all else.
Black-and-white photograph of Fleur Adcock, seated with a microphone, reading her poetry to an audience aboard a covered boat during the Adelaide Festival of Arts, 5 March 1986.

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Connections Author name Excerpt
Publishing Jeni Couzyn
In the late 1960s a male friend of JC passed on to her a commission for an anthology of love poems by women. The publisher had delicate lyrics in mind, and was horrified at Couzyn's...
Reception Ruth Pitter
During her lifetime RP was deeply appreciated by some readers. C. S. Lewis scatters through his letters such remarks as Whenever I re-read your poems, I blame myself for not re-reading them oftener.
King, Don W. “The Anatomy of a Friendship: the correspondence of Ruth Pitter and C. S. Lewis, 1946-1962: Mythlore, Summer 2003”. Findarticles.
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Arthur Russell
Reception Elizabeth Daryush
Yvor Winters looked on The Last Man and Other Verses as having begun ED 's mastery of her new subject-matter.
Davie, Donald, and Elizabeth Daryush. “Introduction”. Collected Poems, Carcanet New Press, 1976, pp. 13-23.
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In 1936 he wrote of her as increasingly conscious of social injustice, of the...
Reception Dorothy Wordsworth
The poet Fleur Adcock has named DW ' journals as her desert island book. On an Arts Council writer's fellowship at Charlotte Mason College in Ambleside in 1977-8, she bought the Mary Moorman edition and...
Reception Ali Smith
Jackie Kay included Girl Meets Boy in her list of favourite books from 2007. In comparing Smith's version of Iphis and Ianthe with Fleur Adcock 's contribution to Hofmann and Lasdun 's After Ovid: New...
Residence Angela Carter
After a year or so living in London (in the East Finchley flat of the poet Fleur Adcock ), she moved to Bath, where she bought a small house with money provided by her...
Textual Features Germaine Greer
Women are a minority here, but well represented: Fleur Adcock , Anna Letitia Barbauld , Amy Clampitt , Olive Custance (Lady Alfred Douglas) , Emily Dickinson , Freda Downie , U. A. Fanthorpe , Vicki Feaver
Textual Features Marianne Moore
This volume includes many of the animal poems for which Moore is particularly remembered: poems in which her precise observation and startling and at times outlandish vividness of perception are often subordinated to a moral...
Textual Features Carol Ann Duffy
She selected slightly more carols by women than by men, and recalled that Christina Rossetti 's In the Bleak Midwinter was the result of a commission from Scribner's Monthly in 1872. Her own contribution concerns...
Textual Features Marianne Moore
Fleur Adcock admires MM on the one hand for her technical innovations, which she reckons to embrace various aspects—the syllabic lines, the idiosyncratically shaped stanzas, the use of appliquéd prose quotations— and on...
Textual Production Gillian Clarke
GC has contributed poems to more than half a dozen journals, Welsh, English, and American, and most frequently to Poetry Wales, the New Welsh Review, and Poetry Nation Review (PNR). She has reviewed...
Textual Production Selima Hill
In 1998 SH 's work appeared in volume two of Bloodaxe 's Poetry Quartets series of poetry readings on cassette tapes, along with Fleur Adcock , Carol Ann Duffy , and Carol Rumens .
OCLC WorldCat. 1992–1998, http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.
Textual Production Shena Mackay
This small tribute to the enduring power of friendship is one of a series covering topics like childhood, first love, loss, or marriage. Plans must have changed in printing, for the introduction refers to Fleur Adcock
Textual Production Jeni Couzyn
The other poets included are Kathleen Raine , Denise Levertov , Elizabeth Jennings , Elaine Feinstein , Ruth Fainlight , Sylvia Plath , Jenny Joseph , Anne Stevenson , and Fleur Adcock .

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