Collected Poems by Fleur Adcock (Hardback) A. A. Milne her true power as a

her true power as a poet in fact

He spent just over three weeks in a coma

we explore nationhood and belonging

letters to or from real

' – Melissa Lee-Houghton

Collected Poems by Fleur Adcock (Hardback) A. A. Milne her true power as aFleur 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