Jinx

Häftad, Engelska, 2018

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Jinx: A ruinous charm, a quickdraw curse, a knight's move. Abigail Parry's first collection is 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. Jinx asks about the equivocal nature of artifice, and the real mischief that underwrites the trick. The poems deal in forms of influence: in seduction and persuasion, infatuation and obsession. They want to talk about what we submit to, and what we are compelled by. Shortlisted for the Forward Prize for Best First Collection 2018.

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Utgivningsdatum2018-03-29
Mått156 x 234 x 7 mm
Vikt178 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor96
FörlagBloodaxe Books Ltd
ISBN9781780372341

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Abigail Parry spent several years as a toymaker before completing a PhD on wordplay. Her poems have been set to music, translated into Spanish, Serbian and Japanese, and performed or exhibited in Europe, the Caribbean and the US. She has won a number of prizes and awards for her work, including the Ballymaloe Prize and an Eric Gregory Award. Her ﬁrst collection, Jinx (Bloodaxe Books, 2018), dealt in trickery, gameplay, masks and costume, and was described as ‘a party in a bag’ (Declan Ryan) and ‘vaudevillian sleaze’ (Stephanie Sy-Quia). The book was shortlisted for the Forward Prize for Best First Collection and the Seamus Heaney Prize for Best First Collection, and named a Book of the Year in The New Statesman (Marina Warner), The Telegraph (Tristram Fane Saunders) and the Morning Star (Kate Wakeling). Her second collection, I Think We’re Alone Now, was published by Bloodaxe Books in 2023, and was shortlisted for both the T.S. Eliot Prize 2023 and for the English-language Poetry Award (Wales Book of the Year 2024).

9 Emma, you’re a gamer10 Hare12 The Lemures13 J ♥14 The Man Who16 The Knife Game19 The Wolf Man22 The Oracle24 The fuss you made about your wedding veil25 Goat26 You Know Who27 †28 Girl to Snake30 俳諧の連蛾32 Reedling34 Good morning, Captain35 Black Lagoon36 The Stone Girls38 Milagros39 Magpie as Gambler40 The Fossils in the Square and Compass42 Follow the Lady43 52 Card Pickup44 Love song for a Minotaur46 The Lesson from the Snake47 Fetch48 Arterial50 All along, the ivy52 Key53 Spook and the Jewel Thief59 (Don’t they know it’s) The End of the World?60 The Negative62 Pasodoble with Lizards64 Pepper’s Ghost65 The Amazing Geraldine67 MAYDAY has been cancelled68 The Courtesan Jigoku Dayū sees herself as a skeleton in the mirror of Hell69 Turn the Blue Iris70 Requiem Shark71 The nine lives you might have lived, were it not for the nine thin spells through your heart74 Ravens76 Olly olly oxen free78 The Quilt80 Phantom81 Into82 Red-rooms84 The Great Escape86 Keeper87 Scraps for the Goatman91 Very small, this warm thing92 Spook and the Sunset93 The Pocket Diminishing Glass94 Notes

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.