Poems 1960-2000

by Fleur Adcock

  (Faber, 1987)

  The Oxford Book of Creatures, with Jacqueline Simms

  (Oxford University Press, 1995)

  EDITOR & TRANSLATOR

  Hugh Primas and the Archpoet

  (Cambridge University Press, 1994)

  TRANSLATOR

  The Virgin & the Nightingale: medieval Latin lyrics

  (Bloodaxe Books, 1983)

  Grete Tartler: Orient Express

  (Oxford University Press, 1989)

  Daniela Crasnaru: Letters from Darkness

  (Oxford University Press, 1991)

  About the Author

  Fleur Adcock was born in New Zealand in 1934. She spent the war years in England, returning with her family to New Zealand in 1947. She emigrated to Britain in 1963, working as a librarian in London until 1979. In 1977-78 she was writer-in-residence at Charlotte Mason College of Education, Ambleside. She was Northern Arts Literary Fellow in 1979-81, living in Newcastle, becoming a freelance writer after her return to London. She received an OBE in 1996, and the Queen’s Gold Medal for Poetry in 2006 for Poems 1960-2000 (Bloodaxe Books, 2000).

  Fleur Adcock published three pamphlets with Bloodaxe: Below Loughrigg (1979), Hotspur (1986) and Meeting the Comet (1988), as well as her translations of medieval Latin lyrics, The Virgin & the Nightingale (1983). All her other collections were published by Oxford University Press until they shut down their poetry list in 1999, after which Bloodaxe published her collected poems, Poems 1960-2000 (2000), followed by ten years later by Dragon Talk (2010).

  Copyright

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  Copyright © Fleur Adcock 2000

  First published 2000 by

  Bloodaxe Books Ltd,

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  Tarset,

  Northumberland NE48 1RP.

  This ebook edition first published in 2011.

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