Abigail Parry

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Abigail Parry is a contemporary British poet, essayist, and translator who lectures at Cardiff University. [1] She is best known for her two poetry collections, Jinx and I Think We're Alone Now.

Her first collection, Jinx (2018, Bloodaxe Books), deals in trickery, gameplay, masks and costume, and was shortlisted for the Forward Prize for Best First Collection and the Seamus Heaney Prize for Best First Collection. [2] Her second collection, I Think We're Alone Now (2023, Bloodaxe Books), [3] [4] investigates the idea of intimacy and was shortlisted for the 2023 T. S. Eliot Prize and for the English-language Poetry Award 2024. [5] [6] In 2025, David Collard published A Crumpled Swan, a collection of fifty essays about Parry's "In the Dream of the Cold Restaurant", a poem included in I Think We're Alone Now. [7]

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  1. ↑ "Dr Abigail Parry - People". Cardiff University . Retrieved 29 October 2025.
  2. ↑ "Abigail Parry". Bloodaxe Books . Retrieved 29 October 2025.
  3. ↑ "I Think We're Alone Now by Abigail Parry". Publishers Weekly . 15 February 2024. Retrieved 29 October 2025.
  4. ↑ Rabuzzi, Daniel A. (18 December 2024). "A review of Abigail Parry, I Think We're Alone Now by Daniel A. Rabuzzi". Tupelo Quarterly. Retrieved 29 October 2025.
  5. ↑ "Endlessly curious poems about language and meaning". Times Literary Supplement . 12 January 2024. Retrieved 29 October 2025.
  6. ↑ "Abigail Parry – T.S. Eliot Writers' Notes • Poetry School". Poetry School. 10 January 2024. Retrieved 29 October 2025.
  7. ↑ "A Crumpled Swan: Fifty Essays About Abigail Parry's "In the Dream of the Cold Restaurant" by David Collard". Publishers Weekly . 20 March 2025. Retrieved 29 October 2025.


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