Collected Poems by Fleur Adcock (Hardback) Criticism ensuring that the poems are

ensuring that the poems are not just entertaining

’ – Kathleen Jamie & Maurice Riordan

in old poems

art’ – Seamus Heaney

Collected Poems by Fleur Adcock (Hardback) Criticism ensuring that the poems areFleur Adcock is one of Britain's most accomplished poets. Her poised, ironic poems are tense and tightly controlled as well as shrewdly laconic, and often chilling as she unmasks the deceptions of love or unravels family lives. Disarmingly conversational in style, they are remarkable for their psychological insight and their unsentimental, mischievously casual view of personal relationships. Born in New Zealand, she has explored questions of identity