Fleur Adcock, OBE, CNZM, (born February 10, 1934) is a New Zealand born poet and editor, of English and Northern Irish ancestry, who has lived much of her life in England. The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire is a British Order of chivalry established on 4 June 1917 by King George V. The New Zealand Order of Merit is an Order established in 1996 "for those persons who in any field of endeavour Events 1355 - The St Scholastica's Day riot breaks out in Oxford, England, leaving 63 scholars and perhaps 30 locals dead Year 1934 ( MCMXXXIV) was a Common year starting on Monday (link will display full 1934 calendar of the Gregorian calendar. New Zealand is an Island country in the south-western Pacific Ocean comprising two main landmasses (the North Island and the South Island A poet is a person who writes Poetry. Etymology From the Ancient greek: ποιέω, poieō: "I make or compose" Copy editing (also copy-editing and copyediting) is the editorial work that an editor does to make Formatting changes and improvements to a manuscript England is a Country which is part of the United Kingdom. Its inhabitants account for more than 83% of the total UK population whilst its mainland ^[1][2][3] She has published thirteen books of poetry.

Contents 1 Early life 2 Life in England 3 Poetry 4 Works 4.1 Edited or translated 5 Awards and honors 6 References 7 External links

Early life

Adcock was born in Papakura, Auckland, New Zealand but spent the years between 1939 and 1947 living and studying in England. Geography Papakura is 123 square kilometres in size and is just 32 km from downtown Auckland The Auckland metropolitan area or Greater Auckland, in the North Island of New Zealand, is the largest and most populous urban area in the country Year 1939 ( MCMXXXIX) was a Common year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Year 1947 ( MCMXLVII) was a Common year starting on Wednesday (link will display full 1947 calendar of the Gregorian calendar. She is a sister to Marilyn Duckworth. She studied Classics at the Victoria University of Wellington, graduating with a M.A.. "Classical literature" redirects here For literature in Classical languages outside the Graeco-Roman sphere see Ancient literature. Victoria University of Wellington, also known in Māori as Te Whare Wānanga o te Ūpoko o te Ika a Māui was established in 1897 by Act of She worked as an assistant lecturer librarian at the University of Otago in Dunedin until 1961. The University of Otago ( Te Whare Wānanga o Otāgo) in Dunedin is New Zealand 's oldest university with over 20000 students enrolled during Dunedin (dəˈneɪdɪn) Ōtepoti in Maori is the second-largest city in the South Island of New Zealand, and the principal city of the region of Year 1961 ( MCMLXI) was a Common year starting on Sunday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. She was married to two famous New Zealand literary personalities. In 1952 she married Alistair Campbell, and later divorced. Year 1952 ( MCMLII) was a Leap year starting on Tuesday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Alistair Te Ariki Campbell, ONZM, (born 25 June, 1925) is an award-winning New Zealand poet playwright and novelist Then in 1962 she married Barry Crump, divorcing in 1963. Year 1962 ( MCMLXII) was a Common year starting on Monday (the link is to a full 1962 calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Barry Crump MBE ( May 15, 1935, Auckland New Zealand – July 3, 1996) was a New Zealand author of semi- autobiographical Year 1963 ( MCMLXIII) was a Common year starting on Tuesday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar.

Life in England

In 1963, Adcock returned to England and took up a post as librarian at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office in London. Year 1963 ( MCMLXIII) was a Common year starting on Tuesday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. The Foreign and Commonwealth Office, commonly called the Foreign Office or the FCO, is the British government department responsible for promoting London ( ˈlʌndən is the capital and largest urban area in the United Kingdom. Apart from a brief return to New Zealand in 1975-1976, she has lived in Finchley, north London ever since, teaching and working as a freelance writer. Finchley is a place in the London Borough of Barnet, London, England.

Poetry

Adcock's poetry is typically concerned with themes of place and everyday activities, but frequently with a dark twist given to the mundane events she writes about. Formally, 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.

Works

• 1964: Eye of the Hurricane, Wellington: Reed^[4]
• 1967: Tigers, London: Oxford University Press^[4]

• 1971: High Tide in the Garden, London: Oxford University Press^[4]

• 1974: The Scenic Route, London and New York: Oxford University Press^[4]

• 1979: The Inner Harbour, Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press^[4]

• 1979: Below Loughrigg, Newcastle-upon-Tyne: Bloodaxe Books^[4]
• 1983: Selected Poems, Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press^[4]
• 1986: Hotspur: a ballad, Newcastle-upon-Tyne: Bloodaxe Books^[4]
• 1986: The Incident Book, Oxford ; New York: Oxford University Press^[4]
• 1988: Meeting the Comet, Newcastle-upon-Tyne: Bloodaxe Books^[4]
• 1991: Time-zones, Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press^[4]
• 1991: Selected Poems, Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press^[4]
• 1993: Mary Magdalene and the Birds: Mezzo-sporano and Clarinet, by Dorothy Buchanan, with words by Fleur Adcock, Wellington: Waiteata Press^[4]
• 1993: Five Modern Poets: Fleur Adcock, U.A. Fanthorpe, Tony Harrison, Anne Stevenson, Derek Walcott, Edited by Barbara Bleiman, Harlow, England: Longman^[4]
• 1997: Looking Back, Oxford and Auckland: Oxford University Press^[4]
• 2000: Poems 1960-2000, Newcastle upon Tyne: Bloodaxe Books^[4]
• 2004: Contributor, The 2nd Wellington International Poetry Festival Anthology, Edited and compiled by Mark Pirie, Ron Riddell and Saray Torres. Events Among the many books of poetry published this year Robert Lowell 's For the Union Dead is greeted with particular acclaim Events Cecil Day-Lewis is selected as the new Poet Laureate of the UK Events This Magazine founded by Robert Grenier and Barrett Watten The Canterbury Tales, Events The Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics is founded by Allen Ginsberg and Anne Waldman. Events The Kenyon Review is restarted by Kenyon College 10 years after the original publication was closed Events The Kenyon Review is restarted by Kenyon College 10 years after the original publication was closed Events Works published in English Australia Les Murray, The People's Otherworld, winner of the 1984 Kenneth Slessor Events New American Writing, an annual literary magazine concentrating on poetry is founded in Chicago Illinois. Events New American Writing, an annual literary magazine concentrating on poetry is founded in Chicago Illinois. Events The first annual The Best American Poetry volume is published this year Events Forward Poetry Prize created Dana Gioia, writing in The Atlantic Monthly suggests (in an article titled "Can Events Forward Poetry Prize created Dana Gioia, writing in The Atlantic Monthly suggests (in an article titled "Can Events January 20 &mdash Maya Angelou reads "On the Pulse of Morning" at the inauguration of President Bill Clinton T Events January 20 &mdash Maya Angelou reads "On the Pulse of Morning" at the inauguration of President Bill Clinton T Ursula Askham Fanthorpe (born 1929 in Kent) is a significant English Poet. Tony Harrison (born April 30, 1937) is an English Poet and Playwright. Derek Alton Walcott (born January 23, 1930) is a West Indies poet playwright writer and visual artist who writes mainly in English. Events January 20 &mdash Miller Williams of Arkansas reads his poem "Of History and Hope" at President Clinton's inauguration Events Griffin Poetry Prize is established with one award given each year for the best work by a Canadian poet and one award given for best work in the English Events April 1 &mdash Foetrycom Web site is launched for the announced purpose of "Exposing fraudulent contests Wellington: HeadworX^[4]

Edited or translated

• 1982: Editor, Oxford Book of Contemporary New Zealand Poetry, Auckland: Oxford University Press^[4]
• 1983: Editor, The Virgin and the Nightingale: Medieval Latin poems, Newcastle-upon-Tyne: Bloodaxe Books,^[4]
• 1987: Editor, Faber Book of 20th Century Women's Poetry, London and Boston: Faber and Faber^[4]
• 1989: Translator, Orient Express: Poems. Events Final edition of This Magazine published March 1 - Dylan Thomas was posthumously honoured by a floor plaque Events Works published in English Australia Les Murray, The People's Otherworld, winner of the 1984 Kenneth Slessor Events Charles Bukowski, fictionalised as alter ego Henry Chinaski becomes the subject of the film Barfly starring Mickey Rourke The Faber Book of Twentieth-Century Women's Poetry is a Poetry anthology edited by Fleur Adcock, and published in 1987 by Faber and Faber. Events Dead Poets Society, a film incorporating excerpts from many traditional poets ending with the title and opening line of Walt Whitman's lament on the Grete Tartler, Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press^[4]
• 1992: Translator, Letters from Darkness: Poems, Daniela Crasnaru, Oxford: Oxford University Press^[4]
• 1994: Translator and editor, Hugh Primas and the Archpoet, Cambridge, England, and New York: Cambridge University Press^[4]
• 1995: Editor (with Jacqueline Simms), The Oxford Book of Creatures, verse and prose anthology, Oxford: Oxford University Press^[4]

Awards and honors

• 1961: Festival of Wellington Poetry Award^[5]
• 1964: New Zealand State Literary Fund Award^[5]
• 1968: Buckland Award (New Zealand)^[5]
• 1968: Jessie Mackay Prize (New Zealand)^[5]
• 1972: Jessie Mackay Prize (New Zealand)^[5]
• 1976: Cholmondeley Award (United Kingdom)^[5]
• 1979: Buckland Award (New Zealand)^[5]
• 1984: New Zealand National Book Award^[5]
• 1988: Arts Council Writers' Award (United Kingdom)^[5]
• 1996: Officer of the Order of the British Empire for her contribution to New Zealand literature^[5]
• 2006: Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry (United Kingdom)^[5]
• 2008: Companion of the New Zealand Order of Merit, for services to literature. Events The Forward Book of Poetry an annual anthology of best British poems is published for the first time by the Forward Poetry Trust Events Allen Ginsberg sells his papers to Stanford University for $1 million Events February 16 &mdash Announcement that 300 poems by ST Coleridge have been discovered February 17 &mdash Sotheby's Events Sylvia Plath suffers a miscarriage Keith and Rosmarie Waldrop buy a secondhand printing press and start Burning Deck Events Among the many books of poetry published this year Robert Lowell 's For the Union Dead is greeted with particular acclaim Events The Belfast Group, a grouping of poets in Belfast, Northern Ireland which was started in 1963 in poetry, lapsed in 1966 Events The Belfast Group, a grouping of poets in Belfast, Northern Ireland which was started in 1963 in poetry, lapsed in 1966 Events John Betjeman becomes Poet Laureate The Belfast Group, a discussion group of poets in Northern Ireland went out Events Two poems written in 1965 by Mao Zedong just before the Cultural Revolution including "Two Birds A Dialogue" are published on January 1 The Cholmondeley Award is an annual award for Poetry given by the Society of Authors in the United Kingdom. Events The Kenyon Review is restarted by Kenyon College 10 years after the original publication was closed Events December 19 - Philip Larkin turns down the British Poet Laureateship and Ted Hughes becomes Poet Laureate Events The first annual The Best American Poetry volume is published this year Events National Poetry Month was established by the Academy of American Poets in April 1996 as way to increase awareness and appreciation of poetry in The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire is a British Order of chivalry established on 4 June 1917 by King George V. New Zealand claims as its own many writers even those immigrants born overseas like South African-born Robin Hyde, or those emigrants who went into Exile but Events French public notary Patrick Huet unveils Pieces of Hope to the Echo of the World in Lyon. Events Works published in English Listed by nation where the work was first published and again by the poet's native land if different substantially revised works listed The New Zealand Order of Merit is an Order established in 1996 "for those persons who in any field of endeavour ^[6]

References

External links

• List of New Zealand literary figures

• Fleur Adcock on Internet Book List

Actors List of New Zealand actors List of current child actors from New Zealand List of former child actors from New Zealand

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