Bright Fear by Mary Jean Chan
POETRY BOOK SOCIETY RECOMMENDATION AUTUMN 2023
PRE-ORDER Robert Graves Safiya Kamaria Kinshasa is a

Safiya Kamaria Kinshasa is a British born Barbadian raised poet

and the poems work toward practical enlightenment the way a bricklayer might

these often provocative poems suggest that there is hope

in everyone

the male gaze

Bright Fear by Mary Jean Chan<br><b>POETRY BOOK SOCIETY RECOMMENDATION AUTUMN 2023</b><br>PRE-ORDER Robert Graves Safiya Kamaria Kinshasa is aFollowing 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