I Think We’re Alone Now

Häftad, Engelska, 2023

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I Think We’re Alone Now was supposed to be a book about intimacy: what it might look like in solitude, in partnership, and in terms of collective responsibility. Instead, the poems are preoccupied with pop music, etymology, surveillance equipment and cervical examination, church architecture and beetles. Just about anything, in fact, except what intimacy is or looks like.So this is a book that runs on failure, and also a book about failures: of language to do what we want, of connection to be meaningful or mutual, and of the analytic approach to say anything useful about what we are to one another. Here are abrupt estrangements and errors of translation, frustrations and ellipses, failed investigations. And beetles.I Think We’re Alone Now is Abigail Parry's second collection. Her first collection, Jinx (Bloodaxe Books, 2018), was shortlisted for the Forward Prize for Best First Collection 2018 and the Seamus Heaney Centre First Collection Poetry Prize 2019.

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Utgivningsdatum2023-11-16
Mått156 x 234 x 8 mm
Vikt178 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor80
FörlagBloodaxe Books Ltd
ISBN9781780376813

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Abigail Parry spent seven years as a toymaker before completing her doctoral thesis on wordplay. Her poems have been set to music, translated into Spanish and Japanese, broadcast on BBC and RTÉ Radio, and widely published in journals and anthologies. She has won a number of prizes and awards for her work, including the Ballymaloe Prize, the Troubadour Prize, and an Eric Gregory Award. Her first collection, Jinx, published by Bloodaxe Books in 2018, was shortlisted for the Forward Prize for Best First Collection 2018 and the Seamus Heaney Centre First Collection Poetry Prize 2019. Her second collection, I Think We're Alone Now, is published by Bloodaxe Books in 2023.

11 The brain of the rat in stereotaxic space12 Speculum14 Axonometric16 In the dream of the cold restaurant18 The Swords20 Set piece with mackerel and sealMARGINAL GLOSSES24 English-speaking learners25 English-speaking learners26 English-speaking learners27 English-speaking learnersCOVERS31 I Think We’re Alone Now32 Les jeux34 Whatever happened to Rosemarie?35 It is the lark that sings so out of tune37 Lore39 Audio commentaryCOMPLICATIONS45 The Fly Dressers’ Guide46 Intentional complications49 Giallo50 Muse51 The true story of your own death55 A ﬁne distinction56 All the blues58 Rune poem for a funeral60 Some remarks on the General Theory of Relativity62 A beetle in a box67 Ghost story in the subjunctive69 OversightTHE SQUINT71 The Squint83 Sparks

These are outstanding poems: constructed like a collection of beautifully made, trick, locked boxes, they are innovative, complex, and lush in their language and texture. In an explosion of gaming we find in the poems etymological digging, rare words, number games, anagrams, hidden shapes – as well as a range of experiments in traditional and contemporary form. This is poetry con brio, ambitious, far-reaching, but using disguise to tell hidden stories of emotion and pain.