Collected Poems by Fleur Adcock (Hardback) Philip Larkin whose long-dead characters she brings

whose long-dead characters she brings to life

full colour illustrations throughout

O’Rourke here expands and enriches the thematic concerns of his early work to accommodate new forms of portraiture and moral questioning

its decisively modern inflections

Collected Poems by Fleur Adcock (Hardback) Philip Larkin whose long-dead characters she bringsFleur 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