Bright Fear by Mary Jean Chan
POETRY BOOK SOCIETY RECOMMENDATION AUTUMN 2023
PRE-ORDER poet laureate Taking us back to the

Taking us back to the early days of spoken-word poetry through to Amanda Gorman

releasing its treasures slowly and with grace

insight and surprise

the where and who we want to be

Bright Fear by Mary Jean Chan<br><b>POETRY BOOK SOCIETY RECOMMENDATION AUTUMN 2023</b><br>PRE-ORDER poet laureate Taking us back to theFollowing 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