Sophie’s story: ‘Things’ Monday, 18 January 2010
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I found it really hard to choose just one poem that I carry as there are so many poems I love. I picked ‘Things’ by Fleur Adcock in the end as I’m not sleeping very well at the moment and it sums up my state of insomnia very well.
Sophie Moxon lives with her husband and their toddler in Edinburgh.
BIOGRAPHY – FLEUR ADCOCK Wednesday, 6 January 2010
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Fleur Adcock was born in New Zealand in 1934, but spent her formative years in England. She moved to London in 1963 and worked as a librarian at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office. Her first book of poetry The Eye of the Hurricane was published in 1964 and she became a full-time writer in 1981.
Fleur has held various literary fellowships and won numerous awards, including many from her native New Zealand. A collected edition of her poetry Poems 1960 – 2000, was published in 2000.
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