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.
New and Selected Poems. Volume One 
Jelly Boots, Smelly Boots 
The Art of Scratching 
Poems Written Abroad 
When Shakespeare Died 
Is This a Poem?: What makes a poem, and how YOU can write one 
Floss