Fleur Adcock

By Fleur Adcock

Fleur Adcock - Fleur Adcock
  • Release Date: 2024-04-09
  • Genre: Poetry

Description

This expanded edition of Fleur Adcock' s Collected Poems, first published in hardback in 2019, includes her latest collection The Mermaid's Purse, and twenty new poems. It is published simultaneously with Bloodaxe Books (UK) on the occasion of Fleur Adcock' s 90th birthday on 10 February 2024.Adcock writes about men and women, childhood, identity, roots and rootlessness, memory and loss, animals and dreams, as well as our interactions with nature and place. Her poised, ironic poems are remarkable for their wry wit, conversational tone and psychological insight, unmasking the deceptions of love or unravelling family lives.