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Abigail Parry reads eight poems from her first collection, JINX, a book concerned with spells, and ersatz spells: with semblance and sleight-of-hand. It takes its formal cues from moth-camouflage and stage magic, from the mirror-maze and the masquerade, and from high-stakes games of poker. The poems she reads here are: ‘Arterial’, ‘The Man Who’, ‘Goat’, ‘Emma, you’re a gamer’, ‘J♥’, ‘The Lemures’, ‘The Courtesan Jigoku Dayū sees herself as a skeleton in the mirror of Hell’ and ‘Turn the Blue Iris’. Abigail Parry spent seven years as a toymaker before completing her doctoral thesis on wordplay. JINX was published by Bloodaxe in March 2018. Neil Astley filmed her reading a selection of poems from her debut collection in London in April 2018. There are separate videos of her reading two other poems, ‘The Quilt’ (youtube.com/watch?v=jz3KcYuUxfw) ‘Pasodoble with Lizards’ (youtube.com/watch?v=jMoRx7s0DHE). For more details see bloodaxebooks.com/ecs/product/jinx-1174
Abigail Parry reads eight poems from her first collection, JINX, a book concerned with spells, and ersatz spells: with semblance and sleight-of-hand. It takes its formal cues from moth-camouflage and stage magic, from the mirror-maze and the masquerade, and from high-stakes games of poker. The poems she reads here are: ‘Arterial’, ‘The Man Who’, ‘Goat’, ‘Emma, you’re a gamer’, ‘J♥’, ‘The Lemures’, ‘The Courtesan Jigoku Dayū sees herself as a skeleton in the mirror of Hell’ and ‘Turn the Blue Iris’. Abigail Parry spent seven years as a toymaker before completing her doctoral thesis on wordplay. JINX was published by Bloodaxe in March 2018. Neil Astley filmed her reading a selection of poems from her debut collection in London in April 2018. There are separate videos of her reading two other poems, ‘The Quilt’ (youtube.com/watch?v=jz3KcYuUxfw) ‘Pasodoble with Lizards’ (youtube.com/watch?v=jMoRx7s0DHE). For more details see bloodaxebooks.com/ecs/product/jinx-1174
