Jinx by Abigail Parry Kim Hyeeson Ellams opens up a captivating

Ellams opens up a captivating and potent dialogue between poems

but at the same time archetypal as a brand new fairy-tale

with oceans and islands as seen from a small boat

the beautifully realised sequences in Wristwatch are moving

and another of a lost self

Jinx by Abigail Parry Kim Hyeeson Ellams opens up a captivatinginx: 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