Jinx by Abigail Parry The Emma Press his ability to adapt contemporary

his ability to adapt contemporary speech rhythms and everyday vocabulary to subtle metrical patterns and poetic forms

now / listen: / hang on / keep your silence / until the words / ripen / in you

Her style of filming combines directness and simplicity

' Ted Hughes

an internal volume control which helps us amplify and focus on quiet sounds in times of threat

Jinx by Abigail Parry The Emma Press his ability to adapt contemporaryinx: A ruinous charm, a quickdraw curse, a knights 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