Collected Poems by Fleur Adcock (Hardback) Philip Larkin or state what he was

or state what he was trying to achieve

and Dream Work

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

superseding her earlier retrospective

full colour illustrations throughout

Collected Poems by Fleur Adcock (Hardback) Philip Larkin or state what he wasFleur 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