Fleur Adcock

Standard Name: Adcock, Fleur
Birth Name: Kareen Fleur Adcock
Married Name: Kareen Fleur Campbell
Married Name: Kareen Fleur Crump
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.
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.

Connections

Connections Author name Excerpt
Anthologization Elaine Feinstein
From this too Adcock chose a poem, Patience, for The Faber Book of Twentieth Century Women's Poetry.
Anthologization Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin
ENC 's book appeared in a limited edition of three hundred copies.
OCLC WorldCat. 1992–1998, http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.
Fleur Adcock selected two poems from it for The Faber Book of Twentieth Century Women's Poetry, 1987.
Anthologization E. J. Scovell
This volume came out on wartime austerity paper. Fleur Adcock drew on it when she chose three poems or excerpts from EJS for The Faber Book of Twentieth Century Women's Poetry, 1987.
Anthologization Elizabeth Bishop
Fleur Adcock reprinted the crucial sentence of this letter, by request of Bishop's executor, at the head of poems by her included in The Faber Book of Twentieth Century Women's Poetry, 1987.
Anthologization E. J. Scovell
EJS has been much anthologised: in Geoffrey Grigson 's Poetry of the Present: An Anthology of the Thirties and After, 1949, and more recently in collections edited by Fleur Adcock , Philip Larkin ,...
Anthologization Gillian Clarke
GC 's work has appeared in various other anthologies, including Six Women Poets, edited by Judith Kinsman (along with Fleur Adcock , Selima Hill , Liz Lochhead , Grace Nichols , and Carol Rumens
Anthologization Marianne Moore
In later revisions tending towards minimalism, this poem almost disappeared. The original version is the one chosen by Fleur Adcock for The Faber Book of Twentieth Century Women's Poetry, 1987.
Anthologization Elaine Feinstein
EF published with Hutchinson in 1973 (the same year as her third novel, The Glass Alembic) a poetry volume entitled The Celebrants, from which Fleur Adcock selected the poem Lais for The Faber...
Intertextuality and Influence Marianne Moore
Elizabeth Bishop , who wrote on MM on several occasions, mentioned her in a letter of advice to a would-be poet as one of the great poets of our own century, who should be read...
Literary responses Penelope Shuttle
The poet Fleur Adcock , reviewing this book along with Scenes from the Gingerbread House by Carol Rumens , gave her higher praise to Rumens. She identified Shuttle as a private and an uneven poet...
Literary responses Patricia Beer
British Book News was as grudging about the 1975 PEN poetry anthology as it was the same year (1976) about Driving West. It reported that this series plods on with safe, unexciting choices, though...
Literary responses Elizabeth Bishop
Sylvia Plath , who began with negative comments about EB , later developed admiration for her fine originality, always surprising, never rigid, flowing, juicier than Marianne Moore who is her godmother.
qtd. in
Rees-Jones, Deryn. “Writing ELIZABETH”. Elizabeth Bishop: Poet of the Periphery, edited by Linda Anderson and Jo Shapcott, Bloodaxe Books, 2002, pp. 42-62.
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Fleur Adcock notes...
Literary responses E. J. Scovell
Admirers of her work include a number of fellow poets: Carol Rumens (who identifies her unemphatic, undeceived and honest observation of what is as the mark of a specifically modern sensibility),
qtd. in
Blain, Virginia et al., editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford, 1990.
Anne Stevenson ,...
Literary responses Marianne Moore
Eliot assessed her in his introduction as the greatest living master of light rhyme, and as one of those few who have done the language some service in my lifetime.
qtd. in
Blain, Virginia et al., editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford, 1990.
Her brother wrote of The...
Literary responses Elizabeth Daryush
ED 's Times obituary called her a self-possessed traditionalist, unimpressed by the twentieth century, with a clear mind, an agile and introspective wit, and nobility of rhythm,but with no gift for metaphor and other...

Timeline

7-12 October 1957: The world's first major leak from a nuclear...

National or international item

7-12 October 1957

The world's first major leak from a nuclear reactor occurred at Windscale (now known as Sellafield) in Cumberland. Problems in power supply produced abnormal temperatures, and a fire.
“Windscale (now Sellafield) Nuclear Incident”. The Virtual Nuclear Tourist: Events.

15 April 1986: Following years of deteriorating relations,...

National or international item

15 April 1986

Following years of deteriorating relations, the USA mounted bombing raids on Tripoli and other places in Libya in retaliation for alleged Libyan involvement in a discotheque bomb in West Berlin on 5 April.
Ighneiwa, Ibrahaim. “Libya: The U.S. Air and Sea Attacks on Libya in 1986”. Ibrahim Ighneiwa Personal Page Libya: Our Home.

1998-9: In a league table of sales in verse for these...

Writing climate item

1998-9

In a league table of sales in verse for these years, published by the Guardian in October 2000, Ted Hughes was the highest with 172,174, Seamus Heaney second with 34,690, and Carol Ann Duffy third...

26 November 1998: Poems written, read, and discussed by Kathleen...

Women writers item

26 November 1998

Poems written, read, and discussed by Kathleen Jamie , Jackie Kay , and two male poets were issued as number one in the audio-cassette series Poetry Quartets.
Blackwell’s Online Bookshop. http://Bookshop.Blackwell.co.uk.

Texts

Adcock, Fleur. Below Loughrigg. Bloodaxe Books, 1979.
Adcock, Fleur. Dragon Talk. Bloodaxe Books, 2010.
Adcock, Fleur et al. Fleur Adcock, Carol Ann Duffy, Selima Hill, Carol Rumens. British Council; Bloodaxe Books, 2 sound cassettes.
Adcock, Fleur. Glass Wings. Bloodaxe, 2013.
Adcock, Fleur. High Tide in the Garden. Oxford University Press, 1971.
Adcock, Fleur. Hoard. Hexham, Northumberland, 2017.
Hugo Aurelianensis, and Archipoeta. Hugh Primas and the Archpoet. Translator Adcock, Fleur, Cambridge University Press, 1994.
Adcock, Fleur. “Leisure and privacy”. Times Literary Supplement, No. 4204, p. 1180.
Adcock, Fleur. Looking Back. Oxford University Press, 1997.
Adcock, Fleur. “New Writing: Zoo”. Mslexia, No. 37, pp. 31-2.
Adcock, Fleur. Poems: 1960-2000. Bloodaxe Books, 2000.
Adcock, Fleur. Selected Poems. Oxford University Press, 1983.
Adcock, Fleur. The Eye of the Hurricane: Poems. A. H. and A. W. Reed, 1964.
Adcock, Fleur, editor. The Faber Book of Twentieth Century Women’s Poetry. Faber and Faber, 1987.
Adcock, Fleur. “The Grasmere Journals, Dorothy Wordsworth”. The London Library Magazine, No. 24, p. 13.
Adcock, Fleur. The Incident Book. Oxford University Press, 1986.
Adcock, Fleur. The Inner Harbour. Oxford University Press, 1979.
Adcock, Fleur. The Land Ballot. University of Victoria Press, 2015.
Adcock, Fleur, editor. The Oxford Book of Contemporary New Zealand Poetry. Oxford University Press, 1982.
Adcock, Fleur. The Scenic Route. Oxford University Press, 1974.
The Virgin and the Nightingale. Translator Adcock, Fleur, Bloodaxe Books, 1983.
Adcock, Fleur. Tigers. Oxford University Press, 1967.
Adcock, Fleur. Time-Zones. Oxford University Press, 1991.