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Fleur Adcock - Collected Poems by Fleur Adcock
$50.00 NZD
Category: World poetry | Reading Level: very good
Fleur Adcock's Collected Poems is a landmark publication in the career of one of New Zealand's most significant writers, combining Poems 1960 - 2000 and four subsequent collections in one beautifully produced hardcover volume.
Fleur Adcock Collected Poems - (Expanded Edition) by Fleur Adcock
$50.00 NZD
Category: Poetry
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.
Glass Wings by Fleur Adcock
$28.00 NZD
Category: World poetry
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 Londo ...Show more
Hoard by Adcock Fleur
$25.00 NZD
Category: NZ Cookbooks
Hoard brings together poems Fleur Adcock had to keep under wraps for several years because they didn't suit the themes of her last two collections, The Land Ballot and Glass Wings. They include reflections on the tools of her trade (handwriting, typewriters), snatches of autobiography (a brief, ill-cons ...Show more
Mermaid's Purse, The by Adcock Fleur
$25.00 NZD
Category: Fiction and NZ Fiction
Fleur Adcock began writing the poems in this book when she was 82. The two chief settings are New Zealand, with its multi-coloured seas, and Britain, seen in various decades. There are foreign travels, flirtations, family memories, deaths and conversations with the dead. Katherine Mansfield, incognito, ...Show more
The Land Ballot by Fleur Adcock
$30.00 NZD
Category: World poetry | Reading Level: very good
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. When things ...Show more
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