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⏲ Duration: 5 min 59 sec
✓ Published: 01-Oct-2008
✓ Published: 01-Oct-2008
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Fleur Adcock writes about men and women, childhood, identity, roots and rootlessness, memory and loss, animals and dreams, as well as our interactions with nature and place. Her poised, ironic poems are remarkable for their wry wit, conversational tone and psychological insight, unmasking the deceptions of love or unravelling family lives.nnBorn in New Zealand in 1934, she spent the war years in England, returning with her family to New Zealand in 1947. There she later married the poet Alistair
Fleur Adcock writes about men and women, childhood, identity, roots and rootlessness, memory and loss, animals and dreams, as well as our interactions with nature and place. Her poised, ironic poems are remarkable for their wry wit, conversational tone and psychological insight, unmasking the deceptions of love or unravelling family lives.nnBorn in New Zealand in 1934, she spent the war years in England, returning with her family to New Zealand in 1947. There she later married the poet Alistair
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