Fleur Adcock's poetry reveals life's surprises and oddities with an oblique take on reality, often capturing emotional complexity through deceptively simple language.
Carol Ann Duffy described Fleur’s work as having a sharper edge, noting its ability to surprise and challenge perceptions, similar to encountering a razor blade in a peach.
In her poem Regression, Fleur conveys the uncanny transformation of the familiar, where what we recognize becomes strange, akin to experiences in dreams or nightmares.
Fleur's writing spans themes of motherhood, loss, and the passage of time, as seen in her tender poem about parting with her son, combining pride with bittersweet pain.
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