Bright Fear by Mary Jean Chan
POETRY BOOK SOCIETY RECOMMENDATION AUTUMN 2023
PRE-ORDER Robert Graves soldiers in the trenches and

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Also includes manifestos and interviews

Fredrik Wandrup

'Here is a new collection by a poet at ease with a variety of forms and approaches

Bright Fear by Mary Jean Chan<br><b>POETRY BOOK SOCIETY RECOMMENDATION AUTUMN 2023</b><br>PRE-ORDER Robert Graves soldiers in the trenches andFollowing their award winning debut, Fleche (2019), comes Mary Jean Chan's gleaming second collection: Bright Fear. Through poems which engage fearlessly with intertwined themes of identity, multilingualism and postcolonial legacy, Chan's latest work explores a family's evolving dynamics, as well as microaggressions stemming from queerphobia and anti Asian racism that accompanied the Covid pandemic. Yet Bright Fear remains deeply attuned to moments of