Collected Poems by Fleur Adcock (Hardback) Criticism only returning to her family

only returning to her family in Iran when she was seventeen

written for his beloved

art’ – Seamus Heaney

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Collected Poems by Fleur Adcock (Hardback) Criticism only returning to her familyFleur Adcock is 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 has explored questions of identity