HOARD brings together poems Fleur Adcock had to keep under wrpas for several years because they didn't suit the themes of her last two collections. They include reflections on the tools of her trade (handwriting, typewriters), snatches of autobiography, and poems on trees, wildlife and everyday objects. Ellen Wilkinson, who led the Jarrow march in 1936, makes two appearances, joining Coleridge, several ancestors and two dogs. The most recent poems in the book recall Acock's visits around the North Island of New Zealand in 2015, affirming her renewed although not uncritical affection for the country of her birth.