. Now in her mid-80s, Fleur Adcock has become over six decades one of the major figures in poetry in both the UK, where she has lived since 1969, as well as in her native New Zealand. . Her national honours include receiving an OBE in 1996, and the Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry in 2006, both presented by H.M. the Queen, and New Zealand Prime Minister's Award for Literary Achievement in Poetry presented to her in 2019 by the Rt Hon Jacinda Ardern. . Fleur Adcock writes about men and women, childhood, identity, roots and rootlessness, memory and loss, animals and dreams, as well as our interactions with nature and place. Her poised, ironic poems are remarkable for their wry wit, conversational tone and psychological insight, unmasking the deceptions of love or unravelling family lives.