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Dragon Talk

Author : Fleur Adcock
Publisher : Bloodaxe Books Limited
ISBN 13 : 9781852248789
Total Pages : 64 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (487 download)

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Download or read book Dragon Talk written by Fleur Adcock and published by Bloodaxe Books Limited. This book was released on 2010 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After the appearance of Fleur Adcock's Poems 1960-2000 she wrote no more poems for several years. This cessation coincided with - but was not entirely caused by - her giving up smoking. When poetry returned to her in 2003 it tended towards a sparer, more concentrated style. This new collection continues to reflect her preoccupations with family matters and with her ambivalent feelings about her native New Zealand. Her initial inspiration was the letters her father wrote home from England to his parents during World War II, which evoked her own memories of that era. The central sequence moves from her first coming to consciousness in New Zealand up to and through the war years in Britain and on to sketches from her teens in puritanical postwar Wellington after her reluctant return - not without her usual sardonic eye for incongruities and absurdities. There are also affectionate poems for her grandchildren and her late mother.

Poems, 1960-2000

Author : Fleur Adcock
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Poems, 1960-2000 written by Fleur Adcock and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Conversational in style and shrewdly laconic, this collection of Fleur Adcock's poetry offers psychological insights into the deceptions of love, personal relationships and family life.

Glass Wings

Author : Fleur Adcock
Publisher : Bloodaxe Books Limited
ISBN 13 : 9781852249731
Total Pages : 79 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (497 download)

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Download or read book Glass Wings written by Fleur Adcock and published by Bloodaxe Books Limited. This book was released on 2013 with total page 79 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a new collection of poems by one of Britain's leading poets, Fleur Adcock. It contains poems on insects, family and ancestors.

The Faber Book of 20th Century Women's Poetry

Author : Fleur Adcock
Publisher : London ; Boston : Faber and Faber
ISBN 13 : 9780571136933
Total Pages : 330 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (369 download)

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Download or read book The Faber Book of 20th Century Women's Poetry written by Fleur Adcock and published by London ; Boston : Faber and Faber. This book was released on 1987-01 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gathers poems by Hilda Doolittle, Marianne Moore, Edna St Vincent Millay, Louise Bogan, Stevie Smith, Maxine Kumin, Adrienne Rich, Sylvia Plath, and Margaret Atwood

The Land Ballot

Author : Fleur Adcock
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781780371474
Total Pages : 95 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (714 download)

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Download or read book The Land Ballot written by Fleur Adcock and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 95 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 didn't work out as they had hoped much of the responsibility for running the farm and engineering their eventual escape fell on their teenage son, Adcock's father. This sequence of poems follows the course of their efforts and builds up a portrait of a small, isolated community.

The Mermaid's Purse

Author : Fleur Adcock
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781780375700
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (757 download)

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Download or read book The Mermaid's Purse written by Fleur Adcock and published by . This book was released on 2021-02-25 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fleur Adcock wrote these poems during the four years before the COVID-19 pandemic put a stop to them. 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, dodges an academic conference; there's a lesson in water divining as well as a rather unusual Christmas party. We meet several varieties of small mammal, numerous birds, doomed or otherwise, and some sheep. The book ends with a sequence in memory of her friend, the poet Roy Fisher.

Fleur Adcock

Author : Janet Wilson
Publisher : Northcote House Pub Limited
ISBN 13 : 0746310404
Total Pages : 154 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (463 download)

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Download or read book Fleur Adcock written by Janet Wilson and published by Northcote House Pub Limited. This book was released on 2007 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A study of Fleur Adcock as a poet of dual New Zealand and British nationality writing within the mainstream with the eye of an outsider.

Lifesaving Poems

Author : Anthony Wilson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781780371573
Total Pages : 255 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (715 download)

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Download or read book Lifesaving Poems written by Anthony Wilson and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Inspired by a remark of Seamus Heaney, Lifesaving Poems began life as notebook, then a blog. How many poems, Heaney wondered, was it possible to recall responding to, over a lifetime? Was it ten, he asked, twenty, fifty, a hundred, or more? Lifesaving Poems is a way of trying to answer that question. Giving himself the constraint of choosing no more than one poem per poet, Anthony began copying poems out, one at a time, as it were for safekeeping. He asked himself: was the poem one he could recall being moved by the moment he first read it? And: could he live without it? Then he posted each poem on his blog and said why he liked it. Word spread and soon his blog had thousands of followers, everyone reading and responding to the poems he talked about - and sharing his posts. Now Lifesaving Poems has turned into an anthology, not one designed to be a perfect list of 'the great and the good', but a gathering of poems he happens to feel passionate about, according to his tastes. As Billy Collins says: 'Good poems are poems that I like'. Anthony's popular personal commentaries are included with the poems. There are Lifesaving Poems by John Ashbery, Elizabeth Bishop, Raymond Carver, Carol Ann Duffy, Thom Gunn, Seamus Heaney, Marie Howe, Jaan Kaplinski, Brendan Kennelly, Jane Kenyon, Galway Kinnell, Philip Levine, Norman MacCaig, Ian McMillan, Derek Mahon, Sharon Olds, Mary Oliver, Sylvia Plath, Adrienne Rich, Jo Shapcott, Tomas Transtromer, Wislawa Szymborska, and many, many others.

The Virgin and the Nightingale

Author : Fleur Adcock
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 104 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book The Virgin and the Nightingale written by Fleur Adcock and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Wonderful verse translations of medieval Latin lyrics.

In Person

Author : Neil Astley
Publisher : Bloodaxe Books
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 286 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book In Person written by Neil Astley and published by Bloodaxe Books. This book was released on 2008 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "IN PERSON presents contemporary poetry to readers in a totally new way, with short films of 30 living poets reading their work on two DVDs. [...] an anthology/DVD combination with all the poems from the films includes in the book.

The Incident Book

Author : Fleur Adcock
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 70 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book The Incident Book written by Fleur Adcock and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1986 with total page 70 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The incidents in this collection range from childhood experiences and family events through glimpses of steet life in Thatcher's Britain to deaths and premonitions of death, individual and universal, under the shadow of the nuclear threat. There is a group of fictional narratives, and a handful of the erotic, or, more properly, anti-erotic poems for which ... Adcock is well-known. There are also celebrations of places, reflections on art and language, and affectionate tributes to friends."--Back cover.

Hoard

Author : Fleur Adcock
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781780373966
Total Pages : 80 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (739 download)

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Download or read book Hoard written by Fleur Adcock and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

The Wasting Game

Author : Philip Gross
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 70 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book The Wasting Game written by Philip Gross and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 70 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Of an earlier book, Terry Eagleton wrote: 'Philip Gross knows how to make silence and suggestion resonate... he touches an alien, intractable dimension...Gross's poems are about lost bearings and blurred frontiers...a landscape bereft of assured relationships, haunted by the just-missedness of human contact' (Independent on Sunday). These new poems reach towards closer engagement, whether with the realities of Estonia, his father's birthplace - visited for the ﬁrst time - or with other loves and longings, never uncomplicated but handled even at their most difficult with tenderness and wit, nowhere more so that in the title-sequence about his daughter's struggle with anorexia. In the end, this is a book of life and hope.

When the Tree Falls

Author : Jane Clarke
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781780374802
Total Pages : 64 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (748 download)

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Download or read book When the Tree Falls written by Jane Clarke and published by . This book was released on 2019-09-26 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When the Tree Falls is Jane Clarke's second collection. These lyrically eloquent poems bear witness to the rhythms of birth and death, celebration and mourning, endurance and regrowth. An elegiac sequence, inspired by the loss of her father, moves gracefully through this second collection.

Tools of the Trade

Author : Samuel Tongue
Publisher : Polygon
ISBN 13 : 9781846976124
Total Pages : 112 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (761 download)

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Download or read book Tools of the Trade written by Samuel Tongue and published by Polygon. This book was released on 2022-07-05 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Being a doctor is a privilege; it is also very demanding and can be stressful, and to be able to look after others, we need to look after ourselves. We offer you this little book of poetry, Tools of the Trade, as a friend to provide inspiration, comfort and support as you begin work. Tools of the Trade includes poems by poet-doctors Iain Bamforth, Rafael Campo, Glenn Colquhoun, Martin MacIntryre and Gael Turnbull.

The Beautiful Librarians

Author : Sean O'Brien
Publisher : Picador
ISBN 13 : 1743536917
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (435 download)

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Download or read book The Beautiful Librarians written by Sean O'Brien and published by Picador. This book was released on 2015-03-31 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Each poem in Sean O'Brien's superb new collection opens on a wholly different room, vista or landscape, each drawn with the poet's increasingly refined sense of tone, history and rhetorical assurance. The Beautiful Librarians is a stock-taking of sorts, and a celebration of those unsung but central figures in our culture, often overlooked by both capital and official account. Here we find infantrymen, wrestlers, old lushes in the hotel bar - but none more heroic than the librarians of the title, those silent and silencing guardians of literature and knowledge who, the poet reminds us, also had lives of their own to be celebrated. Elsewhere we find a 12-bar blues sung by Ovid, a hymn to a grey rose, a writing course from hell, and a very French exercise in waiting. A book of terrific variety of theme and form, The Beautiful Librarians is another bravura performance from the most garlanded English poet of his generation.

So Very English

Author : Marsha Rowe
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book So Very English written by Marsha Rowe and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of contemporary short fiction includes works by Fleur Adcock, Jean Binta Breeze, Adam Zameenzad, Kathy Lette, Naomi Mitchison, Kate Pullinger, Judith Grossman, Jill Neville, Ben Okri, Emma Tennant, Fay Weldon, Deborah Levy and many others.