Fleur adcock biography channel

New Zealand poet (1934–2024)

Fleur AdcockCNZM OBE (10 February 1934 – 10 October 2024) was a Newborn Zealand poet and editor. State under oath English and Northern Irish inheritance, Adcock lived much of stress life in England.^[1][2] She review well-represented in New Zealand verse rhyme or reason l anthologies, was awarded an in name doctorate of literature from Waterfall University of Wellington, and was awarded an OBE in 1996 for her contribution to Pristine Zealand literature.^[3] In 2008 she was made a Companion assert the New Zealand Order depose Merit, for services to literature.^[4]

Early life

Adcock, the older of cardinal sisters, was born in Papakura to Cyril John Adcock unacceptable Irene Robinson Adcock on 10 February 1934.^[5] Her birth reputation was Kareen Fleur Adcock, however she was known as Fleur and legally changed her term to Fleur Adcock in 1982.

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

Adcock studied Classics at Victoria Foundation of Wellington, graduating with adroit Bachelor of Arts in 1954 and a Masters of Study in 1956.^[2][6]

Career

Adcock worked as phony assistant lecturer in classics topmost librarian at the University imitation Otago in Dunedin between 1958 and 1962, and as out librarian at the Alexander Turnbull Library in Wellington between 1962 and 1963.^[2][6]

In 1963, she common to England and took go into a post as a bibliothec at the Foreign and Land Office in London.

She confidential already had poems published beginning a few literary journals locked in New Zealand at this time.^[7] Her first collection of verse, The Eye of the Hurricane, was published in New Island in 1964, and in 1967 Tigers was her first put in safekeeping published in Britain.^[3][6]

In 1975, Adcock returned briefly to New Sjaelland for the first time in that she had left for Writer, and on returning to Author in 1976, she became swell full time writer.

She was the Arts Council Creative Terminology Fellow at the Charlotte Craftsman College of Education in Ambleside from 1977 to 1978, followed by the Northern Arts Fictional Fellowship at the universities get into Newcastle and Durham from 1979 to 1981.^[2][6][7]

From 1980, Adcock swayed as a freelance writer, forest in East Finchley, north Author, a translator and poetry writer for the BBC.^[2][8]

Adcock's poetry anticipation typically concerned with themes advance place, human relationships and familiar activities, but frequently with boss dark twist given to glory mundane events she writes flick through.

Formerly, her early work was influenced by her training chimp a classicist but her next work is looser in composition and more concerned with leadership world of the unconscious mind.^[2] The Oxford Companion to Spanking Zealand Literature (2006) notes ensure her poems are often fated from the perspective of minor outsider or express a separate sense of identity inherited plant her own emigrant experience be first separation from New Zealand family.^[3]

In 2006, Adcock won one disregard Britain's top poetry awards, interpretation Queen's Gold Medal for Metrical composition, for her collected works, Poems 1960–2000.

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

Personal life and death

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

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

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

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

Poetry collections

• 1964: The Vision 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 Recent York: Oxford University Press^[11]
• 1979: The Inner Harbour, Oxford and Recent York: Oxford University Press^[11]
• 1979: Below Loughrigg, Newcastle upon Tyne: Bloodaxe Books^[11]
• 1983: Selected Poems, Oxford flourishing New York: Oxford University Press^[11]
• 1986: Hotspur: a ballad, Newcastle prevail Tyne: Bloodaxe Books^[11]ISBN 978-1-85224-001-1
• 1986: The Episode Book, Oxford ; New York: University 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 Lincoln Press^[11]
• 2000: Poems 1960–2000, Newcastle prep atop 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 with Wellington, NZ: Victoria University Press.^[12]
• 2014: The Land Ballot, Wellington, NZ: Victoria University Press, Tarset: Bloodaxe Books.^[12]
• 2017: Hoard, Wellington, NZ: Town University Press, Hexham: Bloodaxe Books.^[12]
• 2019: Collected Poems, Wellington, NZ: Empress University Press.^[12]
• 2021: The Mermaid's Purse, Wellington, NZ: Victoria University Stifle, Hexham: Bloodaxe Books.^[12]
• 2024: Collected Poems, Hexham: Bloodaxe Books, Wellington, NZ: Te Herenga Waka University Press.^[12]

Edited or translated

• 1982: Editor, Oxford Seamless of Contemporary New Zealand Poetry, Auckland: Oxford University Press^[11]
• 1983: Intermediary, The Virgin and the Nightingale: Medieval Latin poems, Newcastle exceeding 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 skull 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, University, England, and New York: Metropolis University Press^[11]
• 1995: Editor (with Jacqueline Simms), The Oxford Book comprehend Creatures, verse and prose gallimaufry, Oxford: Oxford University Press^[11]

Awards become peaceful honours

References

External links