Product Description: A land ballot was the means by which Fleur Adcock's grandparents, immigrants from Manchester during World War I, were able to bid for a piece of native bush on the slopes of Mount Pirongia in the North Island of New Zealand. Their task was to turn this unpromising acreage into a dairy farm...read more

Product Description: Fleur Adcock's title refers to the transparent, glittering wings of some of the species - bees, mosquitoes, dragonflies - celebrated or lamented in a sequence of poems on encounters with arthropods, from the stick insects and crayfish of her native New Zealand to the clothes' moths that infest her London house...read more

Product Description: After the appearance of Fleur Adcock's Poems 1960-2000 she wrote no more poems for several years. This cessation coincided with - but was not entirely caused by - her giving up smoking. When poetry returned to her in 2003 it tended towards a sparer, more concentrated style...read more

Product Description: Conversational in style and shrewdly laconic, this collection of Fleur Adcock's poetry offers psychological insights into the deceptions of love, personal relationships and family life. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: In the first part of this book, her first since Time Zones (OUP, 1991), poet Fleur Adcock looks at some of her ancestors, from relatively recent figures struggling with hardship and family tragedies in 19th-century Manchester, through rural lives in Midlands villages, to a few prominent heroes and villains in Elizabethan and medieval times...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: A literary anthology celebrating every variety of animal life from microbe to mouse, eagle to elephant, in verse and prose from ancient times to the present, including imaginary monsters and fabled beasts. The book is intended for readers of anthologies, pet and animal lovers, natural historians, nature lovers, members of RSPB, RSPCA, gift purchase...read more

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Product Description: Well known as a poet in her own right, and as a translator, Fleur Adcock's new collection is both varied and lively. Her subjects ranges from domestic matters: recalling the birth of her son some years back; remembering her father, the news of whose death in New Zealand reaches her, the expatriate in England; working in her own London garden; to more trenchant matters of contemporary concern, such as the Romanian bid for freedom in 1989, and support for Green causes, including the anti-nuclear stand...read more

Product Description: Although Romania's leading woman poet has published several collections in her own country, this is the first English translation of her verse. It was compiled in collaboration with distinguished New Zealand poet, Fleur Adcock.

Product Description: A long poem in twenty-four sections by one of Britain's leading poets.

Product Description: Wonderful verse translations of medieval Latin lyrics.

Product Description: Wonderful verse translations of medieval Latin lyrics.