Name: The Mermaid’S Purse
Price: 22.93 USD
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Author: Fleur Adcock
ISBN: 9781780375700

Type

Physical Book

Publisher

Bloodaxe Books Ltd

Author

Fleur Adcock

Format

Paperback

ISBN13

9781780375700

Synopsis "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.