Women’s Writing in the British Isles from the Beginnings to the Present
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.
In the late 1960s a male friend of JC
passed on to her a commission for an anthology of love poems by women. The publisher had delicate lyrics in mind, and was horrified at Couzyn's...
Reception
Elizabeth Daryush
Yvor Winters
looked on The Last Man and Other Verses as having begun ED
's mastery of her new subject-matter.
Davie, Donald, and Elizabeth Daryush. “Introduction”. Collected Poems, Carcanet New Press, pp. 13-23.
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In 1936 he wrote of her as increasingly conscious of social injustice, of the...
Reception
Ali Smith
Jackie Kay
included Girl Meets Boy in her list of favourite books from 2007. In comparing Smith's version of Iphis and Ianthe with Fleur Adcock
's contribution to Hofmann
and Lasdun
's After Ovid: New...
Reception
Dorothy Wordsworth
The poet Fleur Adcock
has named DW
' journals as her desert island book. On an Arts Council
writer's fellowship at Charlotte Mason College
in Ambleside in 1977-8, she bought the Mary Moorman
edition and...
Reception
Ruth Pitter
During her lifetime RP
was deeply appreciated by some readers. C. S. Lewis
scatters through his letters such remarks as Whenever I re-read your poems, I blame myself for not re-reading them oftener.
King, Don W. “The Anatomy of a Friendship: the correspondence of Ruth Pitter and C. S. Lewis, 1946-1962: Mythlore, Summer 2003”. Findarticles.
After a year or so living in London (in the East Finchley flat of the poet Fleur Adcock
), she moved to Bath, where she bought a small house with money provided by her...
Textual Features
Carol Ann Duffy
She selected slightly more carols by women than by men, and recalled that Christina Rossetti
's In the Bleak Midwinter was the result of a commission from Scribner's Monthly in 1872. Her own contribution concerns...
This volume includes many of the animal poems for which Moore is particularly remembered: poems in which her precise observation and startling and at times outlandish vividness of perception are often subordinated to a moral...
Textual Features
Marianne Moore
Fleur Adcock
admires MM
on the one hand for her technical innovations, which she reckons to embrace various aspects—the syllabic lines, the idiosyncratically shaped stanzas, the use of appliquéd prose quotations— and on...
Textual Production
Selima Hill
In 1998 SH
's work appeared in volume two of Bloodaxe
's Poetry Quartets series of poetry readings on cassette tapes, along with Fleur Adcock
, Carol Ann Duffy
, and Carol Rumens
.
This small tribute to the enduring power of friendship is one of a series covering topics like childhood, first love, loss, or marriage. Plans must have changed in printing, for the introduction refers to Fleur Adcock
Textual Production
Gillian Clarke
GC
has contributed poems to more than half a dozen journals, Welsh, English, and American, and most frequently to Poetry Wales, the New Welsh Review, and Poetry Nation Review (PNR). She has reviewed...
