The Mermaid's Purse

Fleur Adcock began writing the poems in this book when she was 82. The two chief settings are New Zealand, with its multi-coloured seas, and Britain, seen in various decades. There are foreign travels, flirtations, family memories, deaths and conversations with the dead. Katherine Mansfield, incognito, dodges an academic conference; there's a lesson in water divining as well as a rather unusual Christmas party. We meet several varieties of small mammal, numerous birds, doomed or otherwise, and some sheep. The book ends with a sequence in memory of her friend, the poet Roy Fisher.

Author: Fleur Adcock
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Bloodaxe Books
Published: 04/20/2021
Pages: 80
Weight: 0.35lbs
Size: 9.10h x 6.10w x 0.30d
ISBN: 9781780375700