Hoard - Couverture souple

Adcock, Fleur

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1780373961 ISBN 13 : 9781780373966

Editeur : Bloodaxe Books Ltd, 2017

Synopsis

Poetry Book Society Special Commendation.

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-considered second marriage followed by her migration from New Zealand to England in 1963), and poems on trees, wildlife and everyday objects. Ellen Wilkinson, who led the Jarrow March in 1936, makes two appearances, joining Coleridge, several ancestors and two dogs. The most recent poems in the book recall Adcock's visits around the North Island of New Zealand in 2015, affirming her renewed although not uncritical affection for the country of her birth.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Fleur Adcock (1934-2024) was born in New Zealand in 1934. She spent the war years in England, returning with her family to New Zealand in 1947. She emigrated to Britain in 1963, working as a librarian in London until 1979. In 1977-78 she was writer-in-residence at Charlotte Mason College of Education, Ambleside. She was Northern Arts Literary Fellow in 1979-81, living in Newcastle, becoming a freelance writer after her return to London. She received an OBE in 1996, and The Queen’s Gold Medal for Poetry in 2006 for Poems 1960-2000 (Bloodaxe Books, 2000). In October 2019 Fleur Adcock was presented with the New Zealand Prime Minister’s Award for Literary Achievement in Poetry 2019 by the Rt Hon (now Dame) Jacinda Ardern.

Fleur Adcock published three pamphlets with Bloodaxe: Below Loughrigg (1979), Hotspur (1986) and Meeting the Comet (1988), as well as her translations of medieval Latin lyrics, The Virgin & the Nightingale (1983). She also published two translations of Romanian poets with Oxford University Press, Orient Express by Grete Tartler (1989) and Letters from Darkness by Daniela Crasnaru (1994). All her other collections were published by Oxford University Press until they shut down their poetry list in 1999, after which Bloodaxe published her Poems 1960-2000 (2000), followed by Dragon Talk (2010), Glass Wings (2013), The Land Ballot (2015), Hoard (2017) and The Mermaid's Purse (2021). Poems 1960-2000 and Hoard were Poetry Book Society Special Commendations while Glass Wings was a Poetry Book Society Recommendation. Fleur Adcock’s Collected Poems was published by Bloodaxe Books in hardback and paperback on her 90th birthday, 10 February 2024. This is an expanded edition of the Collected Poems published in New Zealand in hardback only by Victoria University Press in 2019. The expanded edition was published simultaneously in New Zealand in paperback only by the same publisher, now known as Te Herenga Waka University Press.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Bloodaxe Books Ltd
• Date d'édition: 2017
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1780373961
• ISBN 13: 9781780373966
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 64
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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