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Jinx

Shortlisted for the Seamus Heaney Centre First Collection Poetry Prize 2019

 

Shortlisted for the Forward Prize for Best First Collection 2018

 

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.

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9781780372341
Weight 0.200 kg
Dimensions 230 × 155 × 10 mm
ISBN

978-1780372341

Cover

Paperback

Publication Year

2018