I Think We\'re Alone Now is a bold and far-ranging second collection from a fresh and original new voice in British poetry.
Eliot Prize..
I Think We\'re Alone Now is shortlisted for the 2023 T.
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Abigail Parry\'s 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.
And beetles.
Here are abrupt estrangements and errors of translation, frustrations and ellipses, failed investigations.
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.
Just about anything, in fact, except what intimacy is or looks like.
Instead, the poems are preoccupied with pop music, etymology, surveillance equipment and cervical examination, church architecture and beetles.
This was supposed to be a book about intimacy: what it might look like in solitude, in partnership, and in terms of collective responsibility.
I Think We\'re Alone Now is a bold and far-ranging second collection from a fresh and original new voice in British poetry
