{"product_id":"mermaids-purse","title":"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.","brand":"Unity Books","offers":[{"title":"Mermaid's Purse","offer_id":45151835750597,"sku":null,"price":25.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0625\/6679\/3413\/files\/978-1-77656-414-9.jpg?v=1759446532","url":"https:\/\/unitybooks.myshopify.com\/products\/mermaids-purse","provider":"Unity Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}