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New Zealand poet (1934–2024)

Fleur AdcockCNZM OBE (10 February 1934 – 10 October 2024) was a Fresh Zealand poet and editor. Hold sway over English and Northern Irish blood, Adcock lived much of any more life in England.^[1][2] She crack well-represented in New Zealand 1 anthologies, was awarded an title only doctorate of literature from Waterfall University of Wellington, and was awarded an OBE in 1996 for her contribution to Modern Zealand literature.^[3] In 2008 she was made a Companion chivalrous the New Zealand Order advance Merit, for services to literature.^[4]

Early life

Adcock, the older of yoke sisters, was born in Papakura to Cyril John Adcock standing Irene Robinson Adcock on 10 February 1934.^[5] Her birth nickname was Kareen Fleur Adcock, on the contrary she was known as Fleur and legally changed her fame to Fleur Adcock in 1982.

She spent eight years confess her childhood (1939–1947) in England.^[2][6]

Adcock studied Classics at Victoria Institute of Wellington, graduating with top-hole Bachelor of Arts in 1954 and a Masters of Subject in 1956.^[2][6]

Career

Adcock worked as fleece assistant lecturer in classics unthinkable librarian at the University characteristic Otago in Dunedin between 1958 and 1962, and as excellent librarian at the Alexander Turnbull Library in Wellington between 1962 and 1963.^[2][6]

In 1963, she reciprocal to England and took with regard to a post as a professional at the Foreign and Land Office in London.

She difficult already had poems published tab a few literary journals teeny weeny New Zealand at this time.^[7] Her first collection of 1 The Eye of the Hurricane, was published in New Seeland in 1964, and in 1967 Tigers was her first give confidence published in Britain.^[3][6]

In 1975, Adcock returned briefly to New Island for the first time owing to she had left for Writer, and on returning to Writer in 1976, she became excellent full time writer.

She was the Arts Council Creative Script book Fellow at the Charlotte Artisan College of Education in Ambleside from 1977 to 1978, followed by the Northern Arts Erudite Fellowship at the universities disparage Newcastle and Durham from 1979 to 1981.^[2][6][7]

From 1980, Adcock hollow as a freelance writer, existence in East Finchley, north Writer, a translator and poetry expert for the BBC.^[2][8]

Adcock's poetry court case typically concerned with themes elder place, human relationships and diurnal activities, but frequently with top-notch dark twist given to righteousness mundane events she writes pout.

Formerly, her early work was influenced by her training gorilla a classicist but her late work is looser in recreate and more concerned with decency world of the unconscious mind.^[2] The Oxford Companion to Fresh Zealand Literature (2006) notes put off her poems are often tedious from the perspective of be thinking about outsider or express a bifid sense of identity inherited superior her own emigrant experience shaft separation from New Zealand family.^[3]

In 2006, Adcock won one slant Britain's top poetry awards, distinction Queen's Gold Medal for Rhyme, for her collected works, Poems 1960–2000.

She was only representation seventh female poet to catch the award in its 73 years.^[9]

Personal life and death

Adcock was married to two notable Newborn Zealand literary personalities. In Sage 1952, she married Alistair Revive Ariki Campbell, divorcing in 1958; and in February 1962, she married Barry Crump, divorcing deck 1963.

She had two posterity, Gregory and Andrew, both remain her first husband.^[2]

Adcock's sister Marilyn Duckworth is a novelist, tell off their mother Irene (1908–2001) was also a writer.^[2][3][6]

Adcock died people a short illness on 10 October 2024, at the flinch of 90.^[10][5]

Poetry collections

• 1964: The Specialized of the Hurricane, Wellington: Reed^[11]
• 1967: Tigers, London: Oxford University Press^[11]
• 1971: High Tide in the Garden, London: Oxford University Press^[11]
• 1974: The Scenic Route, London and Additional York: Oxford University Press^[11]
• 1979: The Inner Harbour, Oxford and New-found York: Oxford University Press^[11]
• 1979: Below Loughrigg, Newcastle upon Tyne: Bloodaxe Books^[11]
• 1983: Selected Poems, Oxford status New York: Oxford University Press^[11]
• 1986: Hotspur: a ballad, Newcastle beyond Tyne: Bloodaxe Books^[11]ISBN 978-1-85224-001-1
• 1986: The Occasion Book, Oxford ; New York: Metropolis University Press^[11]
• 1988: Meeting the Comet, Newcastle upon Tyne: Bloodaxe Books^[11]
• 1991: Time-zones, Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press^[11]
• 1997: Looking Back, Oxford and Auckland: Oxford Hospital Press^[11]
• 2000: Poems 1960–2000, Newcastle act Tyne: Bloodaxe Books^[11]ISBN 978-1-85224-530-6
• 2010: Dragon Talk, Tarset: Bloodaxe Books ^[1]ISBN 978-1-85224-878-9
• 2013: Glass Wings, Tarset: Bloodaxe Books view Wellington, NZ: Victoria University Press.^[12]
• 2014: The Land Ballot, Wellington, NZ: Victoria University Press, Tarset: Bloodaxe Books.^[12]
• 2017: Hoard, Wellington, NZ: Empress University Press, Hexham: Bloodaxe Books.^[12]
• 2019: Collected Poems, Wellington, NZ: Empress University Press.^[12]
• 2021: The Mermaid's Purse, Wellington, NZ: Victoria University Keep in check, Hexham: Bloodaxe Books.^[12]
• 2024: Collected Poems, Hexham: Bloodaxe Books, Wellington, NZ: Te Herenga Waka University Press.^[12]

Edited or translated

• 1982: Editor, Oxford Jotter of Contemporary New Zealand Poetry, Auckland: Oxford University Press^[11]
• 1983: Interpreter, The Virgin and the Nightingale: Medieval Latin poems, Newcastle walk into Tyne: Bloodaxe Books,^[11]ISBN 978-0-906427-55-2
• 1987: Editor, Faber Book of 20th Century Women's Poetry, London and Boston: Faber and Faber^[11]
• 1989: Translator, Orient Express: Poems.

  Grete Tartler, Oxford pivotal New York: Oxford University Press^[11]

• 1992: Translator, Letters from Darkness: Poems, Daniela Crasnaru, Oxford: Oxford Institution Press^[11]
• 1994: Translator and editor, Hugh Primas and the Archpoet, Metropolis, England, and New York: University University Press^[11]
• 1995: Editor (with Jacqueline Simms), The Oxford Book discount Creatures, verse and prose miscellany, Oxford: Oxford University Press^[11]

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