Early Life
Adcock was innate inside Papakura, New Zealand however spent a years between 1939 and 1947 living and researching inside England. She occurs as sister to Marilyn Duckworth. She exposed Classics at the Victoria University of Wellington, graduating with the M.A.. She worked as an adjunct lecturer bibliothec at a University of Otago in Dunedin until 1961. Inside 1962 she married Barry Crump, divorcing in 1963.

Life in England
Inside 1963, Adcock returned to England and took higher a post when bibliothec at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office in London. Apart from either the brief go to to Just released Zealand around 1975-1976, she has sleep in Finchley ever since, teaching and working as a mercenary writer.

Poetry
Adcock's poetry is occasionally caring using themes of place & everyday activities, however oft by using the dark twist given to the mundane cases she writes all about. Formally, her early function was influenced by her expert training videos as a classicist however her supplementary recent function is free inside structure & supplementary caring by owning the world of the unconscious. Her publications include Selected Poems (1983) and Shopping Back (1997). She has edited ''A Faber Book of 20th Century Women's Poetry (1987) and The Oxford Book of Contemporary New Zealand Poetry'' (1982).