Adcock, (Kareen) Fleur
Adcock, (Kareen) Fleur ( 1934 – ),poet and translator, born in New Zealand, and educated partly in England, where she settled in 1963 . Her volumes of poetry include The Eye of the Hurricane ( 1964 ), High Tide in the Garden ( 1971 ), The Inner Harbour ( 1979 ), Selected Poems ( 1983 , reissued 1991 ), a translated selection of medieval Latin poems, The Virgin and the Nightingale ( 1983 ), The Incident Book ( 1986 ), Time-Zones ( 1991 , with elegies for her father who died in 1987 ), and Looking Back ( 1997 ). Predominantly ironic and domestic in tone, her work suggests wider horizons through her evocations of travel and of varied landscapes, and in recent years she has written about public events (e.g. the fall of communism in Romania) and environmental issues. She edited the Oxford Book of Contemporary New Zealand Poetry ( 1983 ) and her translations from...
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