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Bright Fear | Mary Jean Chan

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Following her Costa Poetry Award-winning debut, Flčche (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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Bright Fear | Mary Jean Chan

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The role of words, several languages, and poetry are shown to be central to the poet‘s sense of herself as a strong, queer Asian immigrant to the UK, capable of loving and deserving of love. Mary Jean Chan even explains why readers find her work so accessible & clear: ā€I‘ll confess: it‘s what happens when you want to be understood.ā€¯ An absolutely brilliant collection, currently shortlisted for the Dylan Thomas Prize. #LGBTQ #poetry

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