Bright Fear by Mary Jean Chan
POETRY BOOK SOCIETY RECOMMENDATION AUTUMN 2023
PRE-ORDER Lawrence Shimel winner of the Royal Society

winner of the Royal Society of Literature’s Ondaatje Prize 2018 – the first time a poetry book won this prize for a work of fiction

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Bodied forth into a supple English by Danielle Pieratti

Bright Fear by Mary Jean Chan<br><b>POETRY BOOK SOCIETY RECOMMENDATION AUTUMN 2023</b><br>PRE-ORDER Lawrence Shimel winner of the Royal SocietyFollowing 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