Okapi by Fiona Moore Abigail Parry His ad-libs are perfectly timed

His ad-libs are perfectly timed and if we laugh out loud at his routines

Ghost reassures us that it’s heartbreaking to be human

There are stories from an ancient olive remembering Odysseus and Penelope

The sun shines and we gather because the river allows it

Okapi by Fiona Moore Abigail Parry His ad-libs are perfectly timedFiona 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),