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mods: Collected poems Adcock, Fleur creator author. text New Zealand poetry-20th century. New Zealand poetry-21st century. nz 2019 2019 monographic eng print 558 pages ; 24 cm "Brings together for the first time her 'Poems 1960-2000' and four subsequent collections. Adcock writes about men and women, childhood, identity, roots and rootlessness, memory and loss, animals and dreams, as well as our interactions with nature and place. Her poised, ironic poems are remarkable for their dry wit, conversational tone and psychological insight, unmasking the deceptions of love or unravelling family lives"--Inside front flap. Early poems from The Eye of the Hurricane (1964) and Tigers (1967). Note on Propertius -- Flight, with mountains -- Beauty abroad -- Knife-play -- Instructions to vampires -- Incident -- Unexpected visit -- For Andrew -- For a vive-year-old -- Comment -- Miss Hamilton in London -- The man who x-rayed an orange -- Composition for words and paint -- Regression -- I Ride on my high bicycle -- Parting is such sweet sorrow -- Hauntings -- Advice to a discarded lover -- The water below -- Think before you shoot -- The pangolin -- High Tide in the Garden (1971). A game -- Bogyman -- Clarendon Whatmough -- A surprise in the peninsula -- Purple shining lilies -- Afterwards -- Happy ending -- Being blind -- Grandma -- Ngauranga Gorge Hill -- Stewart Island -- On a son returned to New Zealand -- Saturday -- Trees -- Country station -- The three-toed sloth -- Against coupling -- Mornings after -- Gas -- The Scenic Route (1974). The bullaun -- Please identify yourself -- Richey -- The voyage out -- Train from the Hook of Holland -- Nelia -- Moa Point -- Briddes -- The famous traitor -- Script -- In memoriam: James K. Baxter -- St John's School -- Pupation -- The drought breaks -- Kilpeck -- Feverish -- Folie à deux -- Acris hiems -- December morning -- Showcase -- Over the edge -- The net -- An illustration to Dante -- Tokens -- Naxal -- Bodnath -- External service -- Flyin…