{"product_id":"i-think-were-alone-now-paperback","title":"I Think We're Alone Now - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eAbigail Parry\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cem\u003eI Think We're Alone Now\u003c\/em\u003e is a bold and far-ranging second collection from a fresh and original new voice in British poetry.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis was supposed to be a book about intimacy: what it might look like in solitude, in partnership, and in terms of collective responsibility. Instead, the poems are preoccupied with pop music, etymology, surveillance equipment and cervical examination, church architecture and beetles. Just about anything, in fact, except what intimacy is or looks like.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSo 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. Here are abrupt estrangements and errors of translation, frustrations and ellipses, failed investigations. And beetles.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAbigail Parry's first collection, \u003cem\u003eJinx\u003c\/em\u003e (Bloodaxe Books, 2018), was shortlisted for the Forward Prize for Best First Collection 2018 and the Seamus Heaney Centre First Collection Poetry Prize 2019. \u003ci\u003eI Think We're Alone Now\u003c\/i\u003e was shortlisted for the 2023 T.S. Eliot Prize.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbigail Parry \u003c\/b\u003espent seven years as a toymaker before completing her doctoral thesis on wordplay. Her poems have been set to music, translated into Spanish and Japanese, broadcast on BBC and RTﾉ Radio, and widely published in journals and anthologies. She has won a number of prizes and awards for her work, including the Ballymaloe Prize, the Troubadour Prize, and an Eric Gregory Award. Her first collection, \u003ci\u003eJinx\u003c\/i\u003e, published by Bloodaxe Books in 2018, was shortlisted for the Forward Prize for Best First Collection 2018 and the Seamus Heaney Centre First Collection Poetry Prize 2019. Her second collection, \u003ci\u003e I Think We're Alone Now\u003c\/i\u003e, (Bloodaxe Books, 2023) was shortlisted for the 2023 T.S. Eliot Prize. She is currently a lecturer in creative writing at Cardiff University.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 80\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.3 x 9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e January 09, 2024\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47381778202802,"sku":"9781780376813","price":17.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0770\/3891\/1666\/files\/2dd7ab5f2b6ec169e6807787e83bdb16.webp?v=1777820550","url":"https:\/\/box.dadyminds.org\/products\/i-think-were-alone-now-paperback","provider":"DADYMINDS BOX","version":"1.0","type":"link"}