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The Mermaid's Purse, Paperback / softback Book

The Mermaid's Purse Paperback / softback

Paperback / softback

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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; 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.

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