{"product_id":"the-mermaids-purse-fleur-adcock-9781780375700","title":"The Mermaid's Purse","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; 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Fleur Adcock\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1780375700\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781780375700\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Bloodaxe Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/20\/2021\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 80\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.35lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.10h x 6.10w x 0.30d","brand":"Fleur Adcock","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43989075624191,"sku":"9781780375700","price":16.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_b82a0ecf-df7f-4548-86b0-f0f4139ab76b.jpg?v=1683297605","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-mermaids-purse-fleur-adcock-9781780375700","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}