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Mary Jean Chan


Born
Hong Kong
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Poetry


Mary Jean Chan is a Chinese-British poet, lecturer and editor. Her first poetry collection, Flèche, won the 2019 Costa Book Award in the Poetry category. She was also a recipient of the 2019 Eric Gregory Award for a collection by poets under the age of 30. Chan is a Ledbury Poetry Critic and co-editor of Oxford Poetry. She currently lives in London, and is Lecturer in Creative Writing (Poetry) at Oxford Brookes University.

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Average rating: 4.05 · 3,015 ratings · 516 reviews · 9 distinct works • Similar authors
Flèche
4.22 avg rating — 1,317 ratings — published 2019 — 4 editions
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100 Queer Poems
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Bright Fear
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The Sun Isn’t Out Long Enough
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A Hurry of English
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Desert Island Poems
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“if the legislators of our world looked to their trees for guidance would they reconsider everything?”
― Mary Jean Chan, Flèche
tags: government, nature
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“be the tree that praises even when the cacophony of tractors drown out its hymns
be the roots that seep through stone be the echo of your blood song of your bones”
― Mary Jean Chan, Flèche
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“What does three years of famine teach a person? Nothing.”
― Mary Jean Chan, Flèche
tags: history
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