{"product_id":"hoard-9781780373966","title":"Hoard","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003ePoetry Book Society Special Commendation\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eHoard\u003c\/em\u003e brings together poems Fleur Adcock had to keep under wraps for several years because they didn’t suit the themes of her previous two collections, \u003cem\u003eThe Land Ballot\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eGlass Wings\u003c\/em\u003e. They include reflections on the tools of her trade (handwriting, typewriters), snatches of autobiography (a brief, ill-considered second marriage followed by her migration from New Zealand to England in 1963), and poems on trees, wildlife and everyday objects. Ellen Wilkinson, who led the Jarrow March in 1936, makes two appearances, joining Coleridge, several ancestors and two dogs. The later poems in the book recall Adcock's visits around the North Island of New Zealand in 2015, affirming her renewed although not uncritical affection for the country of her birth.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFleur Adcock (1934-2024) was one of Britain's most accomplished poets. Her poised, ironic poems are tense and tightly controlled as well as shrewdly laconic, and often chilling as she unmasks the deceptions of love or unravels family lives. Disarmingly conversational in style, they are remarkable for their psychological insight and their unsentimental, mischievously casual view of personal relationships. Born in New Zealand, she explored questions of identity and rootedness throughout her work, both in relation to her personal allegiances to her native and adopted countries as well as her family history, whose long-dead characters she brings to life. She also wrote movingly of birth, death and bereavement, and has tackled political issues with honest indignation and caustic wit.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHer first Bloodaxe retrospective, \u003cem\u003ePoems 1960-2000\u003c\/em\u003e, was followed by five further collections, all of which remain available as separate editions. They are also included in full in her \u003cem\u003eCollected Poems\u003c\/em\u003e. This first complete edition of her poetry was published on her 90th birthday in February 2024, superseding her earlier retrospective, with the addition of \u003cem\u003eDragon Talk\u003c\/em\u003e (2010), \u003cem\u003eGlass Wings\u003c\/em\u003e (2013), \u003cem\u003eThe Land Ballot\u003c\/em\u003e (2015), \u003cem\u003eHoard\u003c\/em\u003e (2017) and \u003cem\u003eThe Mermaid's Purse\u003c\/em\u003e (2021), along with a gathering of 20 new poems.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Fleur Adcock","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48280128454907,"sku":"9781780373966","price":16.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0779\/3917\/9771\/files\/9781780373966.jpg?v=1772486435","url":"https:\/\/indiepubs.com\/products\/hoard-9781780373966","provider":"IndiePubs","version":"1.0","type":"link"}