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 USA. 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), 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, The Telegraph and the Morning Star. Her second collection, I Think We’re Alone Now (Bloodaxe Books, 2023), was shortlisted for both the T. S. Eliot Prize 2023 and for the English-language Poetry Award (Wales Book of the Year 2024). She lives in Cardiff. Author photo © Richard Arnold
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