Mary Jean Chan

Bright Fear (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Following her Costa Poetry Award-winning debut, Flèche (2019), comes Mary Jean Chan's second collection: Bright Fear. These poems further explore the distinctively intertwined themes of identity, language and postcolonial legacy. They are bedded in key moments from Chan's childhood in Hong Kong and her life, 'racialised and queer', in the UK. Questions of acceptance and assimilation are examined, whether in a mother's ambivalence or the specious jargon of Equality, Diversity and Inclusion. The experience of living through a SARS outbreak with a father as a doctor is horribly revivified as, once again, the existential threat of pandemic becomes reality. Throughout, Chan offers new ways for us to 'withstand the quotidian tug-of-war / between brightness, terror and love'.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Faber & Faber
• Seitenzahl: 64
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. August 2023
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780571378913
• Artikelnr.: 67689407

Autorenporträt

Mary Jean Chan is the author of Flèche (2019), which won the 2019 Costa Book Award for Poetry and was shortlisted in 2020 for the International Dylan Thomas Prize, the John Pollard Foundation International Poetry Prize, the Jhalak Prize and the Seamus Heaney Centre First Collection Poetry Prize. Chan recently co-edited 100 Queer Poems (Vintage, 2022) with Andrew McMillan. Chan is Senior Lecturer in Creative Writing (Poetry) at Oxford Brookes University and serves as a supervisor on the Masters in Creative Writing at the University of Oxford. Born and raised in Hong Kong, Chan lives in Oxford.