Occupation poet, editor Name Fleur Adcock | Role Poet Siblings Marilyn Duckworth | |
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Born 10 February 1934 (age 90) Auckland, New Zealand ( 1934-02-10 ) Spouse Alistair Campbell (m. 1952) Books Poems - 1960‑2000, Dragon Talk, The Land Ballot, Looking back, The incident book Similar People Alistair Campbell, Barry Crump, Hone Tuwhare, Gavin Ewart, Janet Frame | ||
Fleur Adcock
Fleur Adcock CNZM OBE (born 10 February 1934) is a New Zealand poet and editor, of English and Northern Irish ancestry, who has lived much of her life in England.
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- Life and career
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Life and career
Fleur Adcock was born in Auckland, but spent the years between 1939 and 1947 in the UK. Her father was Cyril John Adcock, her sister is the novelist Marilyn Duckworth. Fleur Adcock studied Classics at Victoria University of Wellington, graduating with a MA. She worked as an assistant lecturer and later an assistant librarian at the University of Otago in Dunedin until 1962. She was married to two famous New Zealand literary personalities. In 1952 she married Alistair Campbell (divorced 1958). Then in 1962 she married Barry Crump, divorcing in 1963.
In 1963, Adcock returned to England and took up a post as an assistant librarian at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office in London until 1979. Since then she has been a freelance writer, living in East Finchley, north London. She has held several literary fellowships, including the Northern Arts Literary Fellowship in Newcastle upon Tyne and Durham in 1979–81.
Adcock's poetry is typically concerned with themes of place, human relationships and everyday activities, but frequently with a dark twist given to the mundane events she writes about. Formerly, 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.