The Mermaid s Purse

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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.

Book details and technical specifications

Format: Paperback / softback
ISBN13: 9781776564149
Published: February 2021

Number of pages: 80
Width: not specified
Height: not specified
Depth: not specified

Publisher: Te Herenga Waka University Press