The Mermaid's Purse by Fleur Adcock James Keery both in humanistic study and

both in humanistic study and modern culture

It reveals the story of Pascale Petit’s mentally ill mother and the consequences of abuse

the continually renewing gift of the present moment

” - Percy Bysshe Shelley

The Mermaid's Purse by Fleur Adcock James Keery both in humanistic study andFleur 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