Adcock, Fleur (1934–)

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Adcock, Fleur (1934–)

New Zealand poet. Name variations: Karen Fleur Adcock. Born Karen Fleur Adcock, Feb 10, 1934, in Papakura, near Auckland, New Zealand; dau. of Cyril John Adcock and Irene Robinson Adcock; attended Wellington Girls' College; Victoria University, MA with 1st class honors, 1955; m. Alistair Campbell (poet), 1952 (div. 1958); m. Barry Crump, 1962; children: Andrew.

Immigrated to England (1963); worked as librarian until becoming full-time writer (1979); works include The Eye of the Hurricane (1964), The Scenic Route (1974), The Inner Harbour (1979), Selected Poems (1983), Meeting the Comet (1988), Time Zones (1991), and Looking Back (1997); also edited volumes of poetry and published translations of Latin and Romanian poetry, including The Virgin and the Nightingale: Medieval Latin Poems (1983) and Orient Express: Poems by Grete Tartler (1989).

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