Hoard

Brings together poems Fleur Adcock had to keep under wraps because they didn't suit the themes of her last two collections, The Land Ballot and Glass Wings. Here are reflections on the tools of her trade (handwriting, typewriters), snatches of autobiography (a brief, ill-considered second marriage followed by her migration from New Zealand to England in 1963), and poems on trees, wildlife and everyday objects. The most recent poems in the book recall Adcock's visits around the North Island of New Zealand in 2015, affirming her renewed although not uncritical affection for the country of her birth.