The Mermaid's Purse by Fleur Adcock Sherko Bekas will recognize their precision and

will recognize their precision and their truth

It sings in a variety of strictly observed metres and with rhyme

of trichloroethylene on ‘a thrumming lorry’

In the face of environmental and personal loss Listening to the Night celebrates the moments of resilience “that keep mortality at bay”

The Mermaid's Purse by Fleur Adcock Sherko Bekas will recognize their precision 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