READING:
David Helvarg, The Golden Shore: California’s Love Affair with The Sea (New World Library, 2013)
Eric Paul Roorda, editor, The Ocean Reader: History, Culture, Politics (Duke UP, 2020)
FILM
Short film adaptation of Harvey’s poem, “The Straightforward Mermaid,”“Sea Full of Hooks”(2011), dir. by Ari Simon- Kennedy.
2011 “Sea Full of Hooks” (2011), short arthouse film adapted from Matteas Harvey poem (dir. by Ari Simon Kennedy)
2012: Body Found (Alien Planet and Discovery Channel)
2015: The Lure (Polish). Dir. Agneska Smoczynska
2016-7: The Legend of the Blue Sea (Korean TV). 20 episodes
2016: The Mermaid (Chinese). Dir. Stephen Chow
2017: Blue My Mind (Switzerland). Dir. Lisa Bruhlman
2017: “On the proliferation of mermaids in times of shipwreck” doc. Suzanne Husky
2017: Emilija Skarnulyte, “Sironemelia”
2018: Tidelands (Australia, first Netflix original from Australia). One season
2018-2020: Siren (US, Disney) 3 seasons
2020: A Mermaid in Paris (French). Dir. Mathias Malzieu
2020: The Legend of the Mermaid (Chinese). Dir. Cui Yan-Long
2021: Invisible City (Portuguese: Cidade Invisível), ongoing
2021: The Mermaid (Chinese). Dir. Wei Tong and Zahng Dawai
The Water will Carry us Home
MERMAID LIT
-Jessica Love, Julian is a Mermaid (2018)
1393:Jean d’Arras, The Romance of the Faery Melusine [Andre Lebey (1877-1938), trans.
Gareth Knight Skylight Press, 2011]
1811: Friedrich de la Mott Fouque, Undine
1888: Henrik Ibsen, The Lady from the Sea
1895: Lily Dougall, The Mermaid: A Love Tale
1901/2 H.G. Wells, The Sea Lady (1901 periodical; 1902 book)
1961: Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa, The Professor and the Siren
1992: Robert D. San Souci, Sukey and the Mermaid
1998: Lisa Carey, The Mermaids Singing
2001: Alice Hoffman, Aquamarine (NY: Scholastic Press)
2003: Liz Kessler, The Tail of Emily Windsnap (Candlewick Press)
2007: Nalo Hopkinson, The New Moon’s Arms
2007: Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill, The Fifty Minute Mermaid (The Gallery Press)
2008: Samantha Hunt, The Seas (Tin House Books) 2004, reprinted2018
2010: L.K. Madigan, The Mermaid’s Mirror (Graphia)
2011:Sarah Porter, Lost Voices Book 1, Sarah Porter (Graphia, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt)
2011: Carolyn Turgeon, The Mermaid: A Twist on the Classic Tale
2012: Walking Storms Book 2 in Lost Voices trilogy, (Graphia, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt)
2013: The Twice Lost, Book 3 in Lost Voices trilogy, Sarah Porter (Graphia, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt)
2014: Matthea Harvey, If the Tabloids are True What are You? (Greywolf Press). Poems
2014: Nnedi Okorafor, Lagoon (Saga Press)
2015: Lydia Millet, Mermaids in Paradise (WW Norton)
2015:Trista Edwards, ed. Till the Tide: An Anthology of Mermaid Poetry (Sundress
Publications)
2016: Katie Schickel, The Mermaid’s Secret (Tom Doherty Associates Book, 2016)
2016: A.L. Knorr, Born of Water (self published)
2016: Xequina, The Mermaid Girl (Dragonfeather Books)
2017: Mira Grant (Seanan McGuire), Into the Drowning Deep (Orbit Books)
2017: Tracey Baptiste, Rise of the Jumbies (Algonquin Young Readers)
2017: Ann Claycomb, The Mermaid’s Daughter (William Morroe, HarperCollins)
2017: Tamsin Ley, The Merman’s Kiss (CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform)
2018: Anjali Sachdeva, “Robert Greenman and the Mermaid” All the Names They Used for God
2018: Christina Henry, The Mermaid
2018: Melissa Broder, The Pisces (Hogarth
2018: Imogen Hermes Gowar, The Mermaid and Mrs. Hancock (Harper)
2018: Jessica Love, Julián Is a Mermaid (Candlewick Press)
2019:Rivers Solomon, The Deep (Saga Press)
2019: Amanda Lovelace, the mermaid’s voice returns in this one (Andrews McMeel)
2020: Monique Roffey, The Mermaid of Black Conch (Peepal Tree Press)
2020: Bethany C. Morrow, A Song Below Water (Tom Doherty Associates)
2020: Rebecca Roanhorse, Black Sun: Between Earth and Sky, Book One ( Saga Press)
2020: Yoon Ha Lee, “The Mermaid Astronaut”(Beneath Ceaseless Skies), short story
2020: Maggie Tokuda-Hall, The Mermaid, the Witch, and the Sea (Candlewick Press)
2020: Jenny Lester, “A Mermaid Returns to the Sea”- poem
2020:Tom Lowe, Mermaid: The Eleventh in the Sean O’Brien Series
2021: Kat Leyh, Drunk Mermaids (Gallery 13)
2021: Natasha Bowen, The Skin of the Sea (Random House)
2021: J.R. Rain & H.P. Mallory The Mermaid Next Door. Midlife Mermaid Series
2022: Natalia Sylvester, Breathe and Count Back from Ten (Clarion Books)
2022: Stephanie Burt, We Are Mermaids (Greywolf Press)
2023: Julia Langbein, American Mermaid (Doubleday)
2023: Jade Song, Chlorine (William Morris)
2023: Cassandra Khaw, The Salt Grows Heavy (Tor Publishing Group)