'Dragon Talk' was included in the Guardian's highlights preview of new books out in 2010: 'It's a shock to realise that this is Adcock's first new collection of a decade; the pin-sharp voice of poems such as 'Against Coupling', 'Advice to a Discarded Lover' and 'For a Five Year Old' is so essential and recognisable that it's difficult to know how we've done without it for 10 years'. She features in John Prescott's autobiography. She published a poem about a dream of snogging with Prescott in a phonebox which was read out in the House of Commons by Michael Heseltine.