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Fleur Adcock,
OBE, (born
February 10,
1934) is a
New Zealand born
poet and
editor, of English and Northern Irish ancestry, who has lived much of her life in
England. She has published thirteen books of
poetry.
Early life
Adcock was born in
Papakura,
Auckland, New Zealand but spent the years between
1939 and
1947 living and studying in England. She is a sister to Marilyn Duckworth. She studied
Classics at the
Victoria University of Wellington, graduating with a
M.A.. She worked as an assistant lecturer librarian at the
University of Otago in
Dunedin until
1961. She was married to two famous New Zealand literary personalities. In
1952 she married
Alistair Campbell, and later divorced. Then in
1962 she married
Barry Crump, divorcing in
1963.
Life in England
In
1963, Adcock returned to England and took up a post as librarian at the
Foreign and Commonwealth Office in
London. Apart from a brief return to New Zealand in 1975-1976, she's lived in
Finchley, north London ever since, teaching and working as a freelance writer.
Poetry
Adcock's poetry is typically concerned with themes of place and everyday activities, but frequently with a dark twist given to the mundane events she writes about. Formally, her early work was influenced by her training as a classicist but her more recent work is looser in structure and more concerned with the world of the unconscious mind.
Works
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