Poetic shock tactics

An extensive Guardian profile of New Zealand poet Fleur Adcock that elaborates on everything from her OBE, the end of her muse, her relationship with Barry Crump (“New Zealand’s answer to George Best or Gazza”) to the “Pure Adcockian shock tactic… something wickedly sharp that suddenly leaps from the fastidious formality of rhyme and meter and bites you on the bum.”