The Mermaid's Purse by Fleur Adcock James Keery This collection wrung out my

This collection wrung out my tired heart

the continually renewing gift of the present moment

tracing the influence of Keats

of its early morning fear

Each poem deploys a forensic precision: vivid images

The Mermaid's Purse by Fleur Adcock James Keery This collection wrung out myFleur 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