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Fleur Adcock

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Anthology
Five Modern Poets: Fleur Adcock, U.A. Fanthorpe, Tony Harrison, Anne Stevenson, Derek Walcott. 1993. Voyager link
Times Educational Supplement Sept (1993): 14-14.
School Librarian 41 Nov (1993): 175-175.
The 2nd Wellington International Poetry Festival Anthology. Wellington: HeadworX, 2004. Voyager link
The Virgin and the Nightingale: medieval Latin poems. Newcastle-upon-Tyne: Bloodaxe Books, 1983. Voyager link
Observer July (1983): 29-29.
Books and Bookmen Aug (1983): 28-28.
British Book News Oct (1983): 639-639.
Encounter 62 Mar (1984): 48-48.
Landfall 38 Sept (1984): 354-357.
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Article
"C.K. Stead and Fleur Adcock: a conversation." Landfall 1.46 Mar (1992): 42-64.
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Autobiography
Cherries on a Plate: New Zealand Writers Talk About their Sisters. Auckland: Random House, 1996. Voyager link
Sunday Star Times (1996): E: 4-E: 4.
Evening Post (1996): 7-7.
Listener (1996): 46-46.
Press (1996): Sup. 12-Sup. 12.
Dominion (1996): 20-20.
Quote Unquote 4 Nov (1996): 28-29.
Metro 185 Nov (1996): 111-113.
New Zealand Books 6.5 Dec (1996): 12-13.
North and South 130 Jan (1997): 114-120.
New Zealand Herald (1996): G: 7-G: 7.
Landfall 193 Autumn (1997): 124-126.
"Rural blitz: Fleur Adcocks English childhood." Poetry review 74.2 June (1984): 5-12.
The early 1950s: Fleur Adcock recalls her student days. In Redbrick and bluestockings: women at Victoria 1899-1993. Wellington: Victoria University Press, 1993.
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Biography
Intimate stranger: reminiscences of Dan Davin. Wellington, Steele Roberts 2000. Voyager link
"Wielding the jawbone of an ass." New Zealand Books 4.2 Aug (1994): 1, 11-12.
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Novel
Goose or Gander. 2006. Voyager link
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Poetry
"Beginnings." Islands 7 Aug (1979): 347-356.
Below Loughrigg. Bloodaxe Books 1979.
Listener 94.2086 Jan (1980): 38-39.
Islands 8 June (1980): 173-175.
British Book News June (1982): 339-339.
"Cattle in mist." Listener 124.2579 Aug (1989): 6-6.
Cattle in mist. In: My father and me: New Zealand women remember. Auckland, Tandem Press 1992.
"Christmas dawn; Summer is gone." Landfall 48 Dec (1958): 301-302.
"Creosote." Listener 128.2650 Jan (1991): 85-85.
Eye of the Hurricane. Wellington, Reed 1964.
Craccum 38.10 April (1964): 4-4.
NZ Tablet Oct (1964): 22-22.
Comment 6.1 Oct/Nov (1964): 38-41.
Landfall 18 Dec (1964): 369-372.
Comment 32 April (1967).
Craccum 4 April (1964).
NZ Tablet Oct (1964): 22-.
Comment 6.1 Oct/Nov (1964): 38-41.
"Festschrift." JAAM : just another art movement 4 May (1996): 9-9.
"For Meg." Landfall 195 Fall (1998): 61-61.
"Genealogy and poetry." GRINZ Yearbook (1993): 1-9.
"Happiness." Descant 20.3/4 (1989): 213-213.
High Tide in the Garden. London, Oxford University Press 1971.
Landfall 29 June (1975): 168-173.
London Magazine 11.5 (1971): 118-118.
New Statesman 81 June (1971): 854-854.
Observer July (1971): 28-28.
TLS (Times Literary Supplement) July (1971): 855-855.
Malahat Review 20 Oct (1971): 136-136.
Listener 68.1671 Nov (1971): 50-50.
Landfall 25 Dec (1971): 457-463.
Hotspur: a ballad. Bloodaxe Books 1986.
Looking Back. Oxford, Oxford University Press 1997.
Listener July (1998): 46-46.
Mary Magdalene and the Birds: Mezzo-sporano and Clarinet. Wellington, Wai-te-ata Press 1993.
Meeting the Comet. Bloodaxe Books 1988.
"Miss Hamilton in London; For a five year old." Landfall 69 Mar (1964): 14-15.
"On the school bus; Pastoral; Mary Magdalene and the birds." Landfall 143 Sept (1982): 318-320.
Poems 1960-2000. Bloodaxe Books 2000.
Poems for the Eighties: New Poems. Wellington, Wai-te-ata Press 1979.
Poems in The Oxford Book of Contemporary New Zealand Poetry. Auckland, Oxford University Press 1982.
"Risks." New Zealand Books 6.1 Mar (1996): 14-14.
Selected Poems. Oxford, Oxford University Press 1983.
New Statesman 107 (1984): 24-24.
Encounter 62 Mar (1984): 48-48.
Listener 106.2306 April (1984): 96-96.
New Outlook 9 (1984): 38-38.
Landfall 38 June (1984): 242-244.
Landfall 38 Sept (1984): 354-357.
New Statesman 110 Nov (1985): 28-28.
"Some dangerous beautiful dislocation." Listener 101.2206 May (1982): 22-23.
"The beanstalk; Prince to kitchenmaid; Night-piece." Landfall 60 Dec (1961): 314-317.
"The blackbird." Landfall 158 June (1986): 161-162.
"The greenhouse effect." Landfall 43.4 Dec (1989): 462-462.
The Incident Book. Oxford, Oxford University Press 1986.
Observer Nov (1986): 28-28.
New Statesman 112 (1986): 31-31.
TLS (Times Literary Supplement) (1987): 165-165.
Encounter 68 Mar (1987): 62-62.
Listener 116.2468 June (1987): 63-63.
Landfall 41.3 Sept (1987): 335-338.
New York Times Book Review 92 Oct (1987): 46-46.
World Literature Today 62 Winter (1988): 184-184.
Otago Daily Times June (1993): 18-18.
TLS (Times Literary Supplement) (1989): 593-593.
The Inner Harbour. Oxford, Oxford University Press 1979.
New Statesman 97 June (1979): 833-833.
Encounter 53 Aug (1979): 49-49.
Listener 92.2065 Aug (1979): 72-72.
Comment 8 Sept (1979): 29-30.
Observer Sept (1979): 37-37.
TLS (Times Literary Supplement) Jan (1980): 64-64.
Landfall 34 June (1980): 194-199.
Islands 8 June (1980): 173-175.
British Book News June (1982): 339-339.
"The last moa." Listener 127.2650 Aug (1990): 114-114.
"The lover." Landfall 39 Sept (1956): 195.
"The man who x-rayed an orange." Landfall 79 Sept (1966): 228-229.
The Scenic Route. London, Oxford University Press 1974.
Islands 4 Summer (1975): 465-467.
Listener 81.1897 April (1976): 32-33.
Poetry Australia 13.65 Dec (1977): 67-72.
Observer Oct (1974): 32-32.
New Statesman 88 Dec (1974): 832-832.
Listener 78.1845 April (1975): 29-29.
Choice 12 May (1975): 387-387.
The way it happens. In The Poets Voice and Draft. Manchester, Carcanet 1994.
Tigers. London, Oxford University Press 1967.
London Magazine 7 (1967): 97-97.
TLS (Times Literary Supplement) Sept (1967): 820-820.
Listener 57.1458 Sept (1967): 21-21.
Australian Book Review 7.2 Dec (1967): 36-36.
Landfall 21 Dec (1967): 35-39.
Comment 9.3 June (1968): 40-41.
Time-zones. Oxford, Oxford University Press 1991.
Dominion June (1991): 11-11.
TLS (Times Literary Supplement) (1991): 22-22.
New Zealand Herald 2 (1991): 6-6.
Listener 131.2690 (1991): 63-63.
London Review of Books 14.1 Jan (1992): 22-22.
Otago Daily Times Feb (1992): 23-23.
Landfall 182 June (1992): 249-251.
New Zealand Books 2.1 June (1992): 5-5.
"To Marilyn from London." Landfall 125 Mar (1978): 5-5.
"To my great-great-grandmothers.." Listener 123.2553 Feb (1989): 7-7.
"Unexpected visit; Cold moon shining." Landfall 65 Mar (1963): 25-26.
"Villa Isola Bella." Landfall 138 June (1981): 127-128.
Water. In Dream: 1993 literary review. Dunedin, Otago University Students Association 1993.
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Review
Guardian 29 Sept (1977).
TLS (Times Literary Supplement) Nov (1984): 1281-1281.
TLS (Times Literary Supplement) Nov (1984): 1281-1281.
Listener 113.2414 May (1986): 54-56.
New Statesman & Society 1 Sept (1988): 42-42.
PPTA Journal 1 (1989): 46-46.
PPTA Journal 1 (1989): 46-46.
TLS (Times Literary Supplement) 4531 Feb (1990): 123-123.
TLS (Times Literary Supplement) 4531 Feb (1990): 123-123.
TLS (Times Literary Supplement) 4531 Feb (1990): 123-123.
TLS (Times Literary Supplement) 4531 (1990): 123-123.
TLS (Times Literary Supplement) 4711 July (1993): 24-24.
"Post-O'Sullivan." Journal of Commonwealth Literature 9.1 Aug (1974): 73-74.
"Review of Germaine Greers Slip-shod Sibyls: recognition, rejection and the woman poet." New Statesman 8.373 Oct (1995): 37-37.
"Review of Poems of Katherine Mansfield." PPTA Journal 1 (1989): 46-46.
"Review of The Oxford Book of New Zealand Short Stories." TLS (Times Literary Supplement) 4711 July (1993): 24-24.
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Sound Recording
Guess and Go. New York, Puffin 1941. Voyager link
 

Works about:

Article
Cochrane, Kirsty. "On the map: Vincent O'Sullivan, Fleur Adcock, Bill Manhire, Ian Wedde." JNZL: Journal of New Zealand Literature 2 (1984): 59-73.
Westaway, Jane. "Sisters' wonderful world of words." New Zealand Woman's Weekly (1986): 6-8.
McLeod, Marion. "A Kiwi English to her bones." Dominion Post Dec (2007): E6.
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Autobiography
Adcock, Fleur. "Rural blitz: Fleur Adcocks English childhood." Poetry review 74.2 June (1984): 5-12.
Adcock, Fleur. "Cherries on a Plate: New Zealand Writers Talk About their Sisters." Random House, Auckland, 1996.
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Essay
Gunn, Kirsty. "Fleur Adcock : New Zealands expatriate poet." More 168 July (1989): 132-134.
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Interview
Edmond, Lauris. "Fleur Adcock." Landfall 143 Sept (1982): 320-326.
Ricketts, Harry. "Fleur Adcock. In Talking About Ourselves: Twelve New Zealand Poets in Conversation with Harry Ricketts." Mallinson Rendel, Wellington, 1986: 124-133.
McLeod, Marion. "Ancestors and wetas." Listener 137.2762 Mar (1993): 48-50.
Ahern, Sheila. "The early 1950s: Fleur Adcock recalls her student days In: Redbrick and bluestockings: women at Victoria 1899-1993." Victoria University Press, Wellington, 1993: 142-143.
Sheehy, Christine. "The resurrected muse." Listener 204.3451 July (2006): 36-37.
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Non Fiction
Stead, C.K. "In the Glass Case: Essays on New Zealand Literature." Auckland University Press : Oxford University Press, Auckland, 1982.
Hulse, Michael. "Fleur Adcock: a poet with bite." Quadrant 28.197 (1984): 52-53.
Cooper, Ronda. "Recent New Zealand poetry." JNZL: Journal of New Zealand Literature 2 (1984): 23-43.
Needham, John. "Recent poetry and Coleridgean principles." JNZL: Journal of New Zealand Literature 3 (1985): 35-56.
Clark, Margaret. "A lifetime of writing. In: Beyond Expectations: Fourteen New Zealand Women Writers Write About Their Lives." Allen & Unwin/Port Nicholson Press, Wellington, 1986: 99-111.
Hardy, Linda. "The ghost of Katherine Mansfield." Landfall 43.4 Dec (1989): 416-432.
Smith, Charmian. "Emotional return for Fleur Adcock." Otago Daily Times Mar (1993): 21-21.
"30 great graduates.." Evening Post (1998): 7-9.
Wills, C. "Fleur Adcock : ambivalent expatriate, 1964-1974." JNZL: Journal of New Zealand Literature 21 (2003): 54-72.
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Poetry
Taylor, Apirana. "On and on 12." Ashton Scholastic, Dunedin, Book Week 88.56 Fall (1998): 95-97.
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Review
Smithyman, Kendrick. Craccum 38.10 April (1964): 4-4.
Bertram, James. Landfall 18 Dec (1964): 369-372.
Weir, John Edward. NZ Tablet Oct (1964): 22-22.
Northcote-Bade, K. Comment 6.1 Oct/Nov (1964): 38-41.
Reid, Ian. Comment 32 April (1967).
Reid, Ian. Australian Book Review 7.2 Dec (1967): 36-36.
Dodsworth, M. London Magazine 7 (1967): 97-97.
Summers, J. Listener 57.1458 Sept (1967): 21-21.
Cunningham, Kevin. Landfall 21 Dec (1967): 35-39.
TLS (Times Literary Supplement) Sept (1967): 820-820.
Arvidson, Ken O. Comment 9.3 June (1968): 40-41.
Skelton, R. Malahat Review 20 Oct (1971): 136-136.
New Statesman 81 June (1971): 854-854.
Observer July (1971): 28-28.
TLS (Times Literary Supplement) July (1971): 855-855.
Wedde, Ian. London Magazine 11.5 (1971): 118-118.
Stead, C.K. Landfall 25 Dec (1971): 457-463.
McEldowney, Dennis. Listener 68.1671 Nov (1971): 50-50.
Observer Oct (1974): 32-32.
New Statesman 88 Dec (1974): 832-832.
Choice 12 May (1975): 387-387.
Roddick, A. Listener 78.1845 April (1975): 29-29.
Manhire, Bill. Islands 4 Summer (1975): 465-467.
Paterson, Alistair. Landfall 29 June (1975): 168-173.
Hunt, Sam. Listener 81.1897 April (1976): 32-33.
McGill, David. "Fastidious Fleur." Listener 81.1892 Mar (1976): 29-29.
Beaver, B. Poetry Australia 13.65 Dec (1977): 67-72.
Broughton, W. S. Comment 8 Sept (1979): 29-30.
Wevers, Lydia. Listener 92.2065 Aug (1979): 72-72.
New Statesman 97 June (1979): 833-833.
Encounter 53 Aug (1979): 49-49.
Observer Sept (1979): 37-37.
TLS (Times Literary Supplement) Jan (1980): 64-64.
Trevor, J. Landfall 34 June (1980): 194-199.
Tomlinson, P. Islands 8 June (1980): 173-175.
Tomlinson, P. Islands 8 June (1980): 173-175.
Edmond, Lauris. Listener 94.2086 Jan (1980): 38-39.
British Book News June (1982): 339-339.
British Book News June (1982): 339-339.
Observer July (1983): 29-29.
Books and Bookmen Aug (1983): 28-28.
British Book News Oct (1983): 639-639.
Encounter 62 Mar (1984): 48-48.
New Statesman 107 (1984): 24-24.
Encounter 62 Mar (1984): 48-48.
Cooper, Ronda. Listener 106.2306 April (1984): 96-96.
Austin, N. Landfall 38 Sept (1984): 354-357.
Austin, N. Landfall 38 Sept (1984): 354-357.
Adams, Graham. New Outlook 9 (1984): 38-38.
Doyle, M. Landfall 38 June (1984): 242-244.
New Statesman 110 Nov (1985): 28-28.
Observer Nov (1986): 28-28.
New Statesman 112 (1986): 31-31.
TLS (Times Literary Supplement) (1987): 165-165.
Encounter 68 Mar (1987): 62-62.
New York Times Book Review 92 Oct (1987): 46-46.
Riach, Alan. Landfall 41.3 Sept (1987): 335-338.
Poole, Fiona. Listener 116.2468 June (1987): 63-63.
World Literature Today 62 Winter (1988): 184-184.
TLS (Times Literary Supplement) (1989): 593-593.
Allan, Guy. New Zealand Herald 2 (1991): 6-6.
Wills, C. TLS (Times Literary Supplement) (1991): 22-22.
Ireland, Kevin. Listener 131.2690 (1991): 63-63.
Hall, Bernadette. Dominion June (1991): 11-11.
Smithyman, Kendrick. Landfall 182 June (1992): 249-251.
Smith, S. London Review of Books 14.1 Jan (1992): 22-22.
Smith, S. London Review of Books 14.1 Jan (1992): 22-22.
Croot, C. Otago Daily Times Feb (1992): 23-23.
Wilson, Janet. New Zealand Books 2.1 June (1992): 5-5.
Times Educational Supplement Sept (1993): 14-14.
School Librarian 41 Nov (1993): 175-175.
Otago Daily Times June (1993): 18-18.
Gregson, Ian. "Your voice speaking in my poems : polyphony in Fleur Adcock.." English: the journal of the English Association 42.174 Fall (1993): 239-251.
French, Anne. Landfall 193 Autumn (1997): 124-126.
Eggleton, David. Listener July (1998): 46-46.
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Thesis
French, Anne. "Twelve women poets of New Zealand: imperatives of shape and growth." University of Texas, Texas, 1967.
Chua, Siew Keng. "Some women poets of the sixties: the confessional poetry of Janet Frame, Fleur Adcock, Sylvia Plath and Anne Sexton." University of Auckland, Auckland, 1981.
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