Fleur Adcock, CNZM OBE

Fleur Adcock CNZM OBE (born 10 February 1934) is a New Zealand poet and editor, of English and Northern Irish ancestry, who has lived much of her life in England. She is well-represented in New Zealand poetry anthologies, was awarded an honorary doctorate of literature from Victoria University of Wellington, and was awarded an OBE in 1996 for her contribution to New Zealand literature.[3] In 2008 she was made a Companion of the New Zealand Order of Merit, for services to literature.

Marriage to Barry Crump (from his biography): Second marriage. Then at a party he attended with fellow writer Jack Lasenby, Crump met poet Fleur Adcock. They married in Dunedin on 9 February 1962. Adcock had a son from her marriage to poet Alistair Campbell. Adcock and Crump’s marriage was short-lived and violent; they divorced after five months. Adcock later wrote of her ‘year of confusion and melodrama’ living with Crump. As a result of his violence, she suffered black eyes, bruises and chipped teeth.

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1. Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fleur_Adcock