Fleur Adcock

Born a New Zealander, but an Englishwoman by adoption, FA is a later twentieth-century poet. She has also done notable work as a translator, anthologist, and critic, but whereas many poets of her generation have given a major part of their attention to novels or children's writing, she has focussed on her poetry above all else.
  • BirthName: Kareen Fleur Adcock
    She legally changed her name in 1982, dropping the Kareen.
    “Contemporary Authors”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Centre-LRC.

  • Married: Campbell; Crump
Black-and-white photograph of Fleur Adcock, seated with a microphone, reading her poetry to an audience aboard a covered boat during the Adelaide Festival of Arts, 5 March 1986.

Milestones

10 February 1934

Kareen Fleur Adcock was born at Papakura (near Auckland), New Zealand, the elder of two sisters.
“Contemporary Authors”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Centre-LRC.

27 April 2000

FA published with Bloodaxe her substantial, definitive Poems: 1960-2000 (which, however, was by no means her last publication).
Blackwell’s Online Bookshop. http://Bookshop.Blackwell.co.uk.

Biography

Birth and Background

10 February 1934

Kareen Fleur Adcock was born at Papakura (near Auckland), New Zealand, the elder of two sisters.
“Contemporary Authors”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Centre-LRC.

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