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