The Mermaid's Purse

By Fleur Adcock

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.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1780375700
• ISBN13: 9781780375700
• Release Date: April 2021
• Publisher: Bloodaxe Books
• Length: 80 Pages
• Weight: 0.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 6.1" x 9.1"