Okapi by Fiona Moore Abigail Parry Winston Plowes

Winston Plowes

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Okapi by Fiona Moore Abigail Parry Winston PlowesFiona 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),