Dragon Talk

Paperback original. 8vo. Pp. 64pp. Illustrated wraps. Cover design by Neil Astley & Pamela Robertson-Pearce.

Signed and dated by Author to title-page.

Adcock's first poetry collection since the collected edition of her work, Poems 1960–2000, reflects on her preoccupation with family matters and with her ambivalent feelings towards her native New Zealand. Made Companion of the New Zealand Order of Merit, for services to literature in 2008. Awarded the Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry in 2006. "These poems are lively pieces leavened by Adcock's humour and her keen observations of the ridiculousness and peculiarities of life." –World Literature Today