Abigail Parry

Abigail Parry is a British poet, essayist, and translator who lectures at Cardiff University. She is best known for her two poetry collections, Jinx and I Think We're Alone Now.

Her first collection, Jinx (2018, Bloodaxe Books), deals in trickery, gameplay, masks and costume, and was shortlisted for the Forward Prize for Best First Collection and the Seamus Heaney Prize for Best First Collection. Her second collection, I Think We're Alone Now (2023, Bloodaxe Books), investigates the idea of intimacy and was shortlisted for the 2023 T. S. Eliot Prize and for the English-language Poetry Award 2024. In 2025, David Collard published A Crumpled Swan, a collection of fifty essays about Parry's "In the Dream of the Cold Restaurant", a poem included in I Think We're Alone Now.

Works

Jinx (2018, Bloodaxe Books) I Think We're Alone Now (2023, Bloodaxe Books)