Fleur Adcock

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Kareen Fleur Adcock , CNZM , OBE (born February 10, 1934 in Papakura ) is a British - New Zealand poet and translator . In 2006 she was awarded the Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry and in 2019 the Prime Minister's Award for Poetry .

Life

The Adcock family moved to England in 1939 and returned to New Zealand in 1947. Adcock studied Classical Philology at Victoria University of Wellington . She then taught at the University of Otago and went to London in 1963 , where she was a librarian in the Foreign and Commonwealth Office until 1979 . From then on she worked as a freelance writer. She has received various literary grants and awards, both in England and New Zealand. She has also collaborated with the New Zealand composer Gillian Whitehead , edited poetry anthologies and translated poems from Middle Latin and Romanian into English .

Adcock's frequent shuttles between England and New Zealand had a profound influence on her poetic work. She tries to fathom identities, roots and rootlessness. Often marginalized women are the subject of her poems. Her earlier formal rigor has changed over the years to a relaxed, warm, conversational tone, without, however, venturing into experimental realms. Especially when it comes to sexuality, Adcock's style can be downright blunt.

Fleur Adcock was married to Alistair Campbell from 1952 to 1957 and to Barry Crump , both writers, from 1962 to 1966 . Her mother Irene Adcock and her younger sister Marilyn Duckworth were or are writers.

Works

  • 1964: The Eye of the Hurricane
  • 1967: Tigers
  • 1971: High Tide in the Garden
  • 1974: The Scenic Route
  • 1979: The Inner Harbor
  • 1986: Hotspur: A Ballad for Music
  • 1986: The Incident Book
  • 1991: Time Zones
  • 1997: Looking Back

literature

  • Vicki K. Janik, Del Ivan Janik: Modern British Women Writers: An A-to-Z Guide , Westport / London 2002, pp. 1–8.
  • Raman Selden: Practicing Theory and Reading Literature: An Introduction , Kentucky 1989, pp. 150ff.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b page on Adcock at the New Zealand Book Council
  2. ↑ page to Adcock at poetryarchive.org
  3. ^ Fleur Adcock - Biography . British Council , accessed April 10, 2018 .
personal data
SURNAME Adcock, Fleur
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Adcock, Kareen Fleur
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British-New Zealand poet and translator
DATE OF BIRTH February 10, 1934
PLACE OF BIRTH Papakura