Plays & Poetry

Contains more of the writing from Ireland and elsewhere: essays, criticism, fiction and reportage.

Number 96: Autumn 2024

'Powerful, capacious and profound' OCEAN VUONG 'A book you won't soon forget' ILYA KAMINSKY 'Astonishing' TERRANCE HAYES LONGLISTED FOR THE 2025 DYLAN THOMAS PRIZE

Fleur Adcock is one of Britain's most accomplished poets. Published on her 90th birthday, this first complete edition of her poetry supersedes her earlier retrospective, Poems 1960-2000, with the addition of five later collections, Dragon Talk, Glass Wings, The Land Ballot, Hoard and The Mermaid's Purse, along with a gathering of 20 new poems.

Fleur Adcock began writing the poems in this book when she was 82. The two chief settings are New Zealand, with its multi-coloured seas, and Britain, seen in various decades, plus foreign travels, flirtations, family memories, and a sequence in memory of her friend, the poet Roy Fisher.

An intelligent and exhilarating volume of collected non-fiction from the fearless literary icon Renata Adler