Mermaid's Purse, The
By Adcock Fleur
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.
- ISBN:
- 9781776564149
- Format:
- Paperback / softback
- Pages:
- 80
- Published:
- Publisher:
- Te Herenga Waka University Press
- Imprint:
- Victoria University Press