Aubury's poem is probably best described as pastiche, not parody. As I understand the British use of those terms, both involve imitation, but pastiche does not have an agenda of mockery, or at least not mockery of the writer being imitated. (I hope someone from the UK will set me straight if I've got that wrong.)
By the way, I agree that "recency" would be an unappealing term in serious writing or conversation, although I think it works just fine in the comic context of this poem. That's why I wish it were the poet's coinage.
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