CONTRIBUTORS

Mary Jean Chan

Mary Jean Chan is the author of Flèche (Faber & Faber, 2019), which won the Costa Book Award for Poetry. Bright Fear (Faber, 2023), Chan’s second book, was shortlisted for the Forward Prize for Best Collection and the Writers’ Prize, and is currently shortlisted for the Dylan Thomas Prize. In 2022, Chan co-edited the acclaimed anthology 100 Queer Poems with Andrew McMillan. A recent judge for the 2023 Booker Prize, Chan is currently the 2023–24 Judith E. Wilson Poetry Fellow at the University of Cambridge.

Arrival

I want to give this half-familiar self everything: a firm mattress for their bad back, their favourite chocolate cookie, too many greasy takeaways because they aren’t perfect but they already know this & that knowledge is making them sick the …

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