Chicken Boy - Arthur Parkinson food & drinks brilliantly translated by Sophie Hughes

brilliantly translated by Sophie Hughes

Roxane Gay

Jane Olson

we see the exaggerated glamour of modern female Irish dancers taken out of the glitzy ballrooms and into the fields

draws and makes collages

Chicken Boy - Arthur Parkinson food & drinks brilliantly translated by Sophie HughesI am a toddler the first time I meet a chicken, and we are equal in size and height. The hen has tiny eyelashes, a strawberry jam face and a voice of purring clucks. I sense a happy spirit of inquisitiveness and smile in fascination. From that moment on, I will always love the company of chickens. I have found my tribe Most of us want a dog, or a cat, or a pony when we are young for Arthur Parkinson, it was always hens. Growing up in an ex mining town