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The Mermaid's Purse
Paperback Edition: 1
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; theres 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. Born in Auckland in 1934, Fleur Adcock is a New Zealand poet, editor and translator who resides in Britain.
Publisher : Te Herenga Waka University Pre
Publication date : 2021-02-11
Pages : 80
Subjects: Fiction, Published in New Zealand, NZ Poetry