{"id":491,"date":"2024-11-11T16:35:59","date_gmt":"2024-11-11T16:35:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tse.spyrosntanos.com\/?post_type=person&#038;p=491"},"modified":"2025-06-10T16:05:19","modified_gmt":"2025-06-10T15:05:19","slug":"abigail-parry","status":"publish","type":"person","link":"https:\/\/tseliot.com\/prize\/person\/abigail-parry\/","title":{"rendered":"Abigail Parry"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<p>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 \ufb01rst collection, <em>Jinx<\/em> (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<em> New Statesman<\/em>, <em>The Telegraph<\/em> and the<em> Morning Star<\/em>. Her second collection, <em>I Think We\u2019re Alone Now<\/em> (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. <em>Author photo \u00a9 Richard Arnold<\/em><\/p>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":689,"parent":0,"template":"","class_list":["post-491","person","type-person","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tseliot.com\/prize\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/person\/491","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tseliot.com\/prize\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/person"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tseliot.com\/prize\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/person"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tseliot.com\/prize\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/689"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tseliot.com\/prize\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=491"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}