Chicken Boy - Arthur Parkinson food & drinks we see the exaggerated glamour

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

brilliantly translated by Sophie Hughes

draws and makes collages

Roxane Gay

Chicken Boy - Arthur Parkinson food & drinks we see the exaggerated glamourI 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