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The Mermaid-s Purse

SKU: 9781776564149
$25.00
  • Author:
    ADCOCK Fleur
  • ISBN:
    9781776564149
  • Publication Date:
    February 2021
  • Edition:
    1
  • Pages:
    80
  • Binding:
    Paperback
  • Publisher:
    Te Herenga Waka University Press
  • Country of Publication:
The Mermaid-s Purse
The Mermaid-s Purse

The Mermaid-s Purse

SKU: 9781776564149
$25.00
  • Author:
    ADCOCK Fleur
  • ISBN:
    9781776564149
  • Publication Date:
    February 2021
  • Edition:
    1
  • Pages:
    80
  • Binding:
    Paperback
  • Publisher:
    Te Herenga Waka University Press
  • Country of Publication:

Description

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.

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  • 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.

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.

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