{"product_id":"vignettes","title":"Vignettes","description":"\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003eA memoir in fragments, by one of New Zealand’s best and most beloved poets.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p2\"\u003eNear the end of her long life, Fleur Adcock assembled these 33 short autobiographical pieces – some commissioned by editors over the years, most newly written – and sent them to her son and designated literary executor.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p2\"\u003eFrom earliest childhood memories through to meditations on the getting of wisdom, these vignettes are beautifully written, irreverent and often hilarious.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p2\"\u003eThey include perceptive portraits of notable writers Fleur was close to in New Zealand and England – Alistair Te Ariki Campbell, Barry Crump, James K. Baxter, Maurice Shadbolt, C. K. Stead, Angela Carter and Robert Graves. There are reflections on sisterhood, anthologising, poetry readings, and meeting the Queen.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p2\"\u003eThis treasure of a book remembers one of New Zealand’s greatest poets.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e‘One of the most accomplished and widely admired poets writing in English.’—\u003cem\u003eThe Oxford Companion to Twentieth-Century Poetry\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e‘All her literary urges were towards poetry but her prose was so lively and charming and beautifully composed.’—Steve Braunias, Reading Room\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003eBorn in Auckland, \u003cstrong\u003eFleur Adcock \u003c\/strong\u003e(1934–2024) was a New Zealand poet, editor and translator who resided in Britain. She published many collections of poems, and her awards include the 1961 Festival of Wellington Poetry Award, the Jessie Mackay Prize in 1968 and 1972, the Buckland Award in 1968 and 1979, the New Zealand National Book Award in 1984, an OBE in 1986, the Queen’s Gold Medal for Poetry in 2006, and a CNZM for services to literature in 2008. Fleur Adcock’s Collected Poems was published in 2019, and in an expanded edition in 2024.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003eCover photo: Fleur Adcock at home in East Finchley c. 1977 by Andrew Campbell\u003cbr\u003eCover design: Todd Atticus\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Te Herenga Waka University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53106122391863,"sku":"9781776923373","price":40.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0928\/5048\/7607\/files\/9781776923373Vignettes.jpg?v=1791336317","url":"https:\/\/teherengawakapress.co.nz\/products\/vignettes","provider":"Te Herenga Waka University Press","version":"1.0","type":"link"}