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Abigail Parry

Abigail Parry is a British poet and translator. Her first collection, Jinx (2018), deals in trickery, gameplay, masks, and costume; her second collection, I Think We’re Alone Now (2023), investigates intimacy and estrangement. I Think We’re Alone Now was shortlisted for the T. S. Eliot Prize and for the Wales Book of the Year award; it was commended for its “knottiness of thought and emotion, as well as its refusal of easy answers” (Mary Jean Chan). Both are published by Bloodaxe Books.

Nonfiction

Winter 2025

Sensational Spelling

By Abigail Parry

Your Captain says: Put your head on your knees.   Your Captain says: Put your head in your hands.   Captain says: Put your hands on your head.  Put your […]