Abigail Parry reads her poem ‘The Quilt’ from her first collection, JINX, a book 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. Abigail Parry spent seven years as a toymaker before completing her doctoral thesis on wordplay. JINX was published by Bloodaxe in March 2018. Neil Astley filmed her reading a selection of poems from her debut collection in London in April 2018. There are separate videos of her reading another poem, ‘Pasodoble with Lizards’ ( • Abigail Parry: Pasodob... ) as well as a further selection eight more poems from the book ( • Abigail Parry: Jinx ). For more details see www.bloodaxebooks.com/ecs/prod...