Okapi by Fiona Moore Abigail Parry This collection is an awakening

This collection is an awakening that presents the reality of loss through poems that powerfully translate a mother's emotional strife alongside her lived experience

six pomegranate seeds eaten by mistake

The sun shines and we gather because the river allows it

There are stories from an ancient olive remembering Odysseus and Penelope

Okapi by Fiona Moore Abigail Parry This collection is an awakeningFiona Moore asks am I really here in gaelic they say in an island not on it and, as readers, we might begin preparing ourselves for an immersive experience. Okapi is a single, book length poem, set mostly on (in!) a Hebridean island during the pandemic. Moores rich descriptions recreate the island as a living protagonist: the subject of reflection, memory, destruction, loss (symbolised by the rare okapi, a favourite animal in her childhood zoo),