Land Ballot by Adcock, Fleur

Low stock: 6 left

228mm x 127mm x 6mm

Pages: 96

A land ballot was the means by which Fleur Adcocks grandparents, immigrants from Manchester during World War I, were able to bid for a piece of native bush on the slopes of Mount Pirongia in the North Island of New Zealand. Their task was to turn this unpromising acreage into a dairy farm. When things didnt work out as they had hoped much of the responsibility for running the farm and engineering their eventual escape fell on their teenage son, Adcocks father. This sequence of poems follows the course of their efforts and builds up a portrait of a small, isolated community.