Mary Jean Chan
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FLÈCHE (2019) & BRIGHT FEAR (2023) @FaberBooks . 100 Queer Poems (2022) @vintagebooks . Departmental Lecturer (Creative Writing: Poetry) @OxMst .
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Am looking forward to sharing Bright Fear with you all later this summer 🧡
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Am so honoured to be joining the
@TheBookerPrizes
as a judge for 2023. Can’t wait to be immersed in contemporary fiction over the next ten months! 💝
The judges for the Booker Prize 2023 are revealed. Esi Edugyan will chair the panel and will be joined by
@andoh_adjoa
,
@maryjean_chan
, James Shapiro and
@arobertwebb
Find out more about each of the judges here
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Am really delighted to be on this year’s Costa Poetry Award shortlist! Thank you to the judges & congrats to all the shortlisted writers! 💛
Huge congratulations to
@maryjean_chan
, her debut poetry collection Flèche is shortlisted for the
@CostaBookAwards
🥳
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Am delighted to share that I will be taking up the post of Lecturer in Creative Writing (Poetry) at
@oxford_brookes
this September! Can't wait to start 🤓
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Feels odd to be experiencing a moment of joy during these sombre and difficult times, but am grateful to be sharing this special shortlist with poets & writers whose work I love and admire 💙
📚 THE 2020 SHORTLIST 📚 - We are thrilled to unveil the 6 titles that make up this year's Swansea University (
@swanseauni
) Dylan Thomas Prize (
@dylanthomprize
) shortlist. Which of these young authors will scoop the prize on May 14th? 🏆
#SUDTP20
👉
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Am glad to share the news that my second book will be forthcoming on 3 August 2023 from
@FaberBooks
🧡 Bright Fear was written during a time of grief both personal & collective; thank you to the poets whose words have kept - and continue to keep - me afloat during difficult times.
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@Dr2NisreenAlwan
All children in Hong Kong wear medical masks, even those in kindergarten. It doesn't affect their learning, keeps them safe and allows them to attend school. I really don't understand this anti-mask ideology that is so rampant in the UK, even as a deadly new variant is spreading.
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Flèche is officially out in the world! 💛 Am excited for you all to read it:
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Am grateful to be shortlisted for this year’s
@ForwardPrizes
in the Best Single Poem category ✨ Thanks to the judges for their support, and congratulations to all the other shortlisted poets!
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Am very excited and humbled to be launching my debut poetry collection with
@FaberBooks
in 2019, alongside
@r_vallen
and
@joedunthorne
! Thank you to
@emma_a_paterson
and numerous poetry mentors (especially
@JoShapcott
at
@RHULEnglish
) for helping me make this dream a reality ✨
We're proud to announce we will have debut collections in 2019 from Rachael Allen, Joe Dunthorne & Mary Jean Chan. These and other
#FaberPoetryNewVoices
are celebrated in our special preview pamphlet
@r_vallen
@joedunthorne
@maryjean_chan
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After reading 163 novels over 7 months, we arrived at this longlist for the 2023 Booker Prize. Am proud of these 13 novels - we hope you'll enjoy them too✨
‘All 13 novels cast new light on what it means to exist in our time.’
We are delighted to reveal the
#BookerPrize2023
longlist. Huge congratulations to the authors who make up this year's Booker Dozen. 🎉
Find out more:
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Watching research being done now in the UK on aerosol transmission of COVID is a bit strange because this kind of research has already been done in many Asian countries. It seems the UK just can’t learn from other countries (especially if they’re not Western) & copy what works.
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Am grateful to have won this year's Geoffrey Dearmer Prize for "Fleche", which is the title poem of my debut collection out next week with
@FaberBooks
! Thank you to
@no1_emily
for publishing this poem in The Poetry Review and to Paul Farley for judging: 🤺
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Am so immensely grateful for the opportunity to stand alongside a group of stellar writers tonight
@CostaBookAwards
💛 Congratulations to all the category winners, & to
@jackfairweather
for writing such an important book. Thank you to
@FaberBooks
@emma_a_paterson
for everything!
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Thanks to everyone who's helped celebrate the launch of 100 Queer Poems! Just a personal note to say that each supportive message still means so much to me as someone who struggles with queer shame. Poetry has helped me over the years; I hope our book will do the same for others.
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That HK has pursued a zero covid policy means countless families aren’t mourning dead relatives & nursing those with long covid, unlike how it’s being portrayed by those in favor of letting the virus rip. HK has had 213 deaths. The UK death rate remains over 300 hundred per day.
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Again, it frustrates me that COVID research has to be done in the US or UK to be taken seriously. We’ve known that children can spread SARS since 2003; likewise, they can spread COVID. That’s why places like Singapore & HK make sure children wear masks so they can’t infect others
This study from India reports evidence of transmission in children. Also evidence that some people infect a lot of others and some none. We need more research to identify who’s likely to be a ‘superspreader’ for more effective & targeted prevention.
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Reading Mary Oliver's poems in my early twenties changed me. She wrote about "the difference between doing nothing, or doing a little, and the redemptive act of true effort". Her words made me realise that I could - in spite of queer shame - carve out a "wild and precious life."
RIP Mary Oliver (1935-2019). There's a fine tribute here:
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I grew up during the SARS epidemic when it hit Hong Kong in 2003; I was 16 years old at the time. What the city learnt from SARS has certainly refined and informed HK's current response to COVID-19. It is clear that schools & universities should be shut, that healthy folks should
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Am truly excited to be launching FLÈCHE alongside the brilliant
@luckyflowerhowe
and
@soshunetwork
at the
@LRBbookshop
on 5 July, three days after my birthday. Hope to see some of you there! 🤺🌈📚
5 July:
@maryjean_chan
will be here to celebrate her first full collection FLÈCHE, with readings from and discussion with Will Harris (
@soshunetwork
) and Sarah Howe (
@luckyflowerhowe
)
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Am so thrilled to be sharing the cover art by Zoe Walsh for our anthology '100 Queer Poems', forthcoming in June 2022! Thanks to
@AMcMillanPoet
for inviting me to join him as co-editor, & to
@AlexRssll
& the team at Vintage for their vision & support throughout the past year 🌈🌟
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So grateful to be placed Second in this year's National Poetry Competition! It's a poem that was difficult to write, and one that I never thought I'd share, so to have it so lovingly received meant the world. Thank you to
@AndrewPoetry
in particular for those generous comments 💜
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I’m honoured and grateful to have been chosen by
@JackieKayPoet
as one of her 10 best BAME writers. What a tremendous list to be a part of! 🌟
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First advance copy has arrived!! 🤩 (photo credit:
@AlexRssll
) So excited for you all to read it in June!
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Hong Kong never abandoned the policy of containing the virus and has aggressively tested, implemented contact tracing and quarantines to keep imported cases low. After 4+ months HK is easing social distancing (but everyone wears medical face masks, even outdoors). Total deaths: 4
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Happy co-editors watching our guest issue of The Poetry Review come together 🤓
@PoetrySociety
@soshunetwork
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Am excited to be judging the 2019 New Poets Prize for a short pamphlet by poets aged 17-24 (inclusive). Details below. Please share widely if you know of/work with any poets within this age group! ✨
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Honored to be shortlisted for the
@dylanthomprize
alongside so many books that I've personally loved. Thank you to the judges for supporting Bright Fear!
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Honoured to have read once again at the Forward Prizes in the best single poem category, and to have shared the stage with such incredible poets. Congratulations to all the winners! Looking forward to reading with
@chenchenwrites
@JayGYing
tonight
@WritingatCentre
in Liverpool ✨
Next to the stage is
@maryjean_chan
with The Window, which was placed second in last year’s National Poetry Competition
@PoetrySociety
.
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Thank you to
@LedburyCritics
@SandeepKParmar
for suggesting that I write a reflective piece based on my own experience of growing up during the SARS epidemic in HK. This was written within 12 hours, but am still glad to share some brief thoughts with you all.
#WorldPoetryDay2020
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So excited for my partner, Jo Morris Dixon, whose debut pamphlet is forthcoming from Verve Poetry Press in Sept 2021! What a lovely list to be a part of 🌟
Beyond proud to introduce our 2021 cohort of 🔥😍🔥Verve poets! We couldn't be happier to be bringing you pamphlets and debut collections from this wonderful group of people. More on each poet (slowly) following this post.
#LuckiestPublisherInTheWorld
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This beauty has finally arrived! So glad to have worked on it with the wonderful & brilliant
@soshunetwork
& the fastidious & wise
@abosimian
since late December 2019. We'll be sharing more content online soon! Thanks as well to Aisha Farr for this timely & evocative cover art ✨
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@matthaig1
Hong Kong only reported one new case today (it’s a city of approx 7.4+ million). Widespread testing and contacting tracing and face masks have certainly helped.
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Thinking about schools opening in January 2021 and how that will lead to more people getting the new variant of COVID. Schools in England STILL don't require face masks.
Places where even *primary* school kids wear face masks: Hong Kong, Singapore, Taiwan, South Korea, Japan...
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Thank you for your kind words of support, it truly means a lot! Thought to share this perceptive and generous review of Flèche by May Huang, just published
@hkreviewofbooks
: 💫 It's been such a gift to have Flèche received like this by poets and critics 💙
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My dad, a doctor in Hong Kong, warned me about airborne transmission months ago. Hence the importance of face masks within *any* indoor space / enclosed environment, not just on public transport. Face masks also help prevent transmission in cases where people are asymptomatic 😷
That link to the call to take airborne transmission of SARS-CoV-2 seriously, now here.
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voluntarily stay at home whenever possible. It's not about herd immunity, but about the healthy protecting the sick & those who are vulnerable. The UK's approach has been horrifying & disheartening; something needs to change, & fast. Thought to share this:
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A primary school teacher of mine in Hong Kong inspired me to work hard on my English. She was the reason I fell in love with reading & writing at the age of 11. We hadn't met in 17 years. Today, we met for lunch & I gave her a copy of my pamphlet & said thank you ✨
#synchronicity
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"Living with the virus" is NOT something I've ever heard discussed overseas. It's just not even within the realm of legitimate public health discussion. What folks in Hong Kong are discussing is the need to wear TWO masks due to the new variants. Total deaths since Jan 2020 = 197
There’s a narrative painting scientists as part of a spectrum with those calling for suppression & elimination on the extreme end of that. That’s not true. Look outside the bubble of the *few* countries promoting “living with the virus”. You’ll actually see they’re the minority.
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Hotel quarantine in Hong Kong: have received multiple calls to check I'm in my room from the Health Dep, have a bluetooth enabled wristband I have to wear for 21 days, have 5 tests (1 saliva and 3 PCRs) and one after I leave quarantine. HK has zero COVID cases. I can see why now.
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Wrote a
@guardianreview
piece on some of my recent favourite collections: Layli Long Soldier’s debut
@picadorbooks
, another debut by
@chenchenwrites
@BloodaxeBooks
& a second collection
@arshi_mona
@PavilionPoetry
💛 Thanks to
@SandeepKParmar
for all her support
@LedburyCritics
!
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Am thrilled to be launching my debut poetry pamphlet - A Hurry of English - at the
@oxfordlitfest
on 25 March (12pm at St Cross College), alongside
@pat_err
and
@LilyBlacksell
! Thank you to
@NiallMunro
for making this happen. Join us! For more information:
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What is it with the UK and its holidays? First it was "saving Christmas". Now it's ensuring we get a "summer holiday". People in places like HK, Singapore, Australia etc. aren't focused on holidays; they've got their normal lives back. This is even before vaccination has started.
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I found today’s news of a lecturer from China (who works at the Uni of Southampton) being beaten up while jogging near his home to be very triggering. I remember being so anxious when I had to commute to work in Mar 2020 that I kept my work badge on & hoped it would keep me safe.
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I look really funny here, but am glad to be able to share some thoughts on poetry, fencing & love in this clip for the Costa Book Awards ceremony🤺
@CostaBookAwards
@maryjean_chan
'Despite all the tensions and conflicts that pan out in the book, at the heart of it it's about my love for my family, my love for my partner and what it means to be someone who can love.'
@maryjean_chan
on Flèche, winner of the 2019 Costa Poetry Award
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"Being bilingual isn’t just knowing two languages: it’s having two different identities. [...] One’s being is tied up in language. Memories are tied up in language. I’ve never fallen in love romantically in Chinese, but I have in English, and that’s significant." - Jenny Zhang
SO EXCITED TO SHARE MY INTERVIEW WITH JENNY ZHANG FOR
@lindsaymag_
!!!!!!! 💖💖
#dreamcometrue
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Had a lovely conversation with
@alia_cassam
a few weeks ago about how I found Adrienne Rich in my early twenties, and how her poetry has touched my life in a multitude of ways. Have a listen on today's
@BBCRadio4
Short Cuts (live from 3pm):
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Today, on the Jubilee line - "The world is full of paper. / Write to me." <3
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Proud to be celebrating
#LGBThistorymonth
at the
@NPGLondon
poetry reading tonight with the lovely
@iamrichardscott
! In 2012, I had barely managed to come out to a few close friends; 7 years later, so much has changed. Am feeling a lot of gratitude today for friends and allies 🌈
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Last night was such a joyful occasion! Thank you to everyone who came and helped celebrate the launch of Flèche
@LRBbookshop
, and to
@luckyflowerhowe
and
@soshunetwork
for being truly wonderful people and poets. Am so grateful for all your love and support. Also: Happy Pride!! 🌈
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Grateful to the
@dylanthomprize
judges for including Bright Fear alongside so many stellar works of prose!
📚 THE 2024 LONGLIST 📚
We are thrilled to unveil the 12 titles that make up this year's
@SwanseaUni
Dylan Thomas Prize longlist.
What a depth of incredible global talent! 😮
#SUDTP24
PRESS RELEASE 📰:
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Just when one thinks things are already bleak enough here, turns out that critical race theory is now opposed by the UK government. While universities and so many organisations have taken steps to work on anti-racism policies, the gov denies the existence of white privilege... 😨
“This government stands unequivocally against Critical Race Theory”. 😳
It’s not just Trump: the Tories are every bit as extreme in their attacks on legitimate and profoundly important academic work. I really am a bit speechless...
#CriticalRaceTheory
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The UK response to COVID has been shambolic. No masks in schools. No mass testing. No enforcement for self-isolation. Deaths are rising rapidly again to hundreds per day. Daily cases are over 20000. The negligence is truly shocking & it’s not even winter yet, with Brexit looming.
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Amazing
@ForwardPrizes
shortlist! So many BAME and LGBTQ poets represented this year for their stunning and important work <3
@PerdutaGente
@Danez_Smif
@iamrichardscott
@novelniche
@KavehAkbar
@soshunetwork
@chakrabsumita
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So excited to finally get to share the news that Jay will be joining Theo and myself as one of the co-editors of
@oxfordpoetry
! Hurrah!
We are delighted to announce that
@Brrnrrd
Jay Bernard (whose debut collection will be published in 2019 with
@ChattoBooks
) will be joining us as a co-editor of
@oxfordpoetry
as of Feb 2018! Here's a preview of this issue's cover art, created by Jay, on the theme of 'crossings'!
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Please do send in your poems - am very much looking forward to reading them this August! Stay safe & well everyone x
Where might the daisies take you.. Magma's Poetry Pamphlet Competition is open.
@maryjean_chan
is the judge. Find out more at
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The fact that schools are currently open without masks is shocking. In East Asia, this would be utterly unfathomable. You don’t need “bubbles” or circles on the floor. When I went through SARS as a 13 yr old, it was simple: masks on at all times except for lunch & hand sanitisers
Kids now not a priority for testing in UK while no one is arguing anymore that they can indeed transmit virus to adults. All those promises about effective testing in schools a couple of wks ago evaporated. 50K cases/day expected by Oct with estimates of at least 10%
#LongCovid
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Taiwan has gone for over 200 days without a single COVID case; cases are nearly non-existent in HK. That's thanks to strict border controls, universal masking, mass testing & strict quarantine rules as well as clear govt public health messaging. England has had none of the above.
One word to describe pandemic response in countries with high CV19 transmission is being LATE with all interventions: lockdown, testing, masks, borders, ventilation. Inevitable solutions but denied &hence made less effective. Most were known to us from the start. I still ask why?
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Am thinking about how all Hong Kong residents are now eligible for a face mask each that can be safely re-used & washed up to 60 times. 7.5 million people will receive this for free. HK has had 4 deaths in total. Meanwhile, in the UK...
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First proper day outside after the end of my 21 day hotel quarantine and I'm already so impressed and touched by the diligence of HK people in terms of their mask-wearing. It's over 30 degrees and the humidity is utterly overwhelming, but everyone (even kids) are wearing masks 👏
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Anti-East / Southeast Asian hate crimes are up by nearly 300% since the start of the pandemic in the UK. It’s real and takes a huge physical & mental toll on us. Let’s not just think it’s an issue in the US, it’s happening in the UK too.
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Six years ago today, Adrienne Rich passed away. She was the reason I began to write poetry. Her "Dream of a Common Language" made me change my life. Looking forward to commemorating Adrienne's legacy as a radical feminist, lesbian poet & essayist this April with
@PoetintheCityUK
Two women poets. Two nights. One dream of a common language. The art and activism of Maya Angelou and Adrienne Rich
#TheWomenPoetsWhoChanged1968
16 & 23 April
@WiltonMusicHall
@PoetintheCityUK
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In HK, mask-wearing is compulsory. You wear it till you eat at a restaurant & put it on the instant you leave the table. You wear it even when (especially when!) you're speaking at an event. You wear it at school, in the street, even in the gym. Total deaths since Jan 2020: 213.
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Am delighted to be hosting the inimitable
@Anthony1983
@soshunetwork
and Nisha Ramayya at the Oxford Brookes
@ThinkHumanFest
on 10 February - tickets are selling fast, so do book a spot and come along to hear their scintillating readings in central Oxford:
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Thank you to
@wildcourtpoetry
for giving me the space to ponder something I've been thinking about now for quite sometime - my relationship to Chinese & English as a bi-lingual poet from Hong Kong who writes solely in English:
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This 2nd wave was inevitable due to failed government messaging & confusing policies that make no sense (no masks in schools, "eat out to help out", pubs opening, encouraging holidays abroad without quarantines being enforced, opening universities while cases are on the rise...)
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Am so honoured to be in conversation with
@NatalieGDiaz
whose work I love & admire!
We're thrilled to commission new work from NATALIE DIAZ. Radixes and Formations is a series of poetic sensualities exploring the words ‘origin’, ‘migration’, ‘freedom’ & ‘love’. Natalie will perform the poems & discuss them with Mary Jean Chan 22-29 April.
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Am so excited to be hosting the Argentinian poet Diana Bellessi & her translator
@leoboix
at Oxford Brookes on 12 April from 5-6pm at CLC 1.09, with the support of
@PoetryTranslate
@brookespoetry
. To register, please email niall.munro
@brookes
.ac.uk. Hope to see some of you there!
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Am excited to be teaching the 2nd Queer Arvon Writing week
@TotleighBarton
with
@keithjlondon
from 31 May! There are a few spots left, in case anyone is interested: 🌈💫
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London's been put under Tier 2 restrictions, meaning different households can't mix indoors. What baffles me is how schools are still open without masks - neither teachers nor students seem to be wearing them. Isn't that the perfect example of different households mixing indoors?
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Thanks to
@sarahshaffi
@guardian
for featuring 100 Queer Poems, and spotlighting poems by Jay Bernard, Harry Josephine Giles, Norman Erikson Pasaribu & his translator
@TiffTsao
, &
@Kit_Fan_
which appear in the anthology:
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So honoured that Flèche is a finalist for this year's Lammys, looking forward to the ceremony 🌈💫
Today’s the day!! Have you got your tickets yet? The first ever virtual Lammys begins at 7 PM free and open to all.
Ticketing closes at six – sign up now for the most glamorous gnight in queer books! 🎉✨
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Am grateful to
@Bidisha_online
for her piercing and generous review of Flèche in the lovely autumn issue of The Poetry Review with thanks to
@no1_emily
@PoetrySociety
🍃
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Am honoured to be mentioned on the
@poetrymagazine
'Reading List' for March 2019 by the amazing
@RaymondAntrobus
alongside so many of my favourite UK poets: 💛
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That millions of Americans are prepared to vote for a man who is responsible for countless COVID deaths & doesn’t believe climate change exists & is a vile human being in all senses of the word is truly shocking. & now he wants to insinuate that there is fraud when there is none.
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Excited to have a long poem in the summer issue of The Poetry Review, alongside many favourite names! It's another of my fencing poems - thanks to
@no1_emily
for giving it a lovely home :)
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Was just interviewed by a group of students from my former secondary school in Hong Kong. Every single student wore a medical mask, and the teacher supervising them had one on too. This is how you re-open schools. Masks are crucial. 😷
Total no. of deaths in HK as of June 2020: 4
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In England, I frequently feel gaslit in terms of covid, as masks don’t seem to exist anymore. In Paris, people wear them diligently on public transport, and that just feels responsible, respectful and safe. Covid isn’t over, and long Covid exists. Let’s protect each other better.
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As a young person, I want to remain vigilant not just so that I don’t get the virus, but also so I don’t spread it to others. Younger folks need to take this more seriously so we don’t spark a second wave of COVID-19 as cases begin to rise across the UK
#socialdistance
#maskswork
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Thank you to
@EduardoCCorral
for commissioning a poem of mine for
@POETSorg
that I wrote last year, inspired in part by
#jacquelinerose
@chenchenwrites
@no1_emily
✨
Read today's Poem-a-Day: Mary Jean Chan's "The mother finds her own wild, lost beginnings deep within the body of her daughter."
@maryjean_chan
#PoemADay
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Thanks so much for all your support with the launch of Flèche yesterday! Am really looking forward to the book launch tonight at the LRB at 7pm (there are still a few tickets left for those of you who might want to show up at the door). See you there! 🍰✨
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COVID messaging in England has been so confusing that had I not already known what to do (wear a mask, social distance, ventilate indoor spaces since the virus is airborne - 2m is arbitrary) based on having experienced SARS in HK, I would have lost track of what I should be doing
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Most people won't wear a mask unless it is mandated. But masks have been proven to save lives - it's why doctors use them. Schools can only open safely if teachers, students & staff wear them. Universities are already proceeding in the right direction; schools must do the same 😷
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Very honored to be a part of this wonderful emerging critics scheme spearheaded by
@SandeepKParmar
and
@luckyflowerhowe
and supported by
@ledburyfest
! 😍
.
@ledburyfest
@SandeepKParmar
@luckyflowerhowe
are delighted to introduce
the Ledbury Emerging Poetry Critics...
@DzifaBenson
@maryjean_chan
@JadeCuttle
@saralaestruch
@MHessavi
@nassershussain
Srishti Krishnamoorthy-Cavell
@JenniferYuhsia
Full details
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@chenchenwrites
@JayGYing
We also got a question/comment from someone else about why we have to keep critiquing colonialism, since isn’t so bad after all, and that it just meant learning other people’s customs (conflating it with cultural assimilation, among other things)... 😯
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It’s very interesting that despite the UK being a democratic country, it can’t be held accountable for the soaring death rates & it’s lack of testing & lack of contact tracing. Scientists have been pressuring the government to do the right thing since mid-March, but to no avail.
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Thank you to
@ambitmagazine
for nominating me for Best Single Poem - thrilled to be on the
#ForwardPrizes
shortlist!
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There is a new variant of COVID in the UK. The R rate is between 1.1-1.2. Waves of national lockdown were not inevitable if not for the grossly inadequate guidance on masks, testing & quarantining. Johnson's leadership has been shambolic. Now Tier 4 is being announced for the SE.
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Celebrated National Poetry Day by discussing When I Grow Up I Want...
@chenchenwrites
, which I love teaching year after year. From my favourite poem "Poplar Street": "I'm trying out this thing where questions about love & forgiveness/are a form of work I'd rather not do alone." 💙
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Congratulations to all the winners & thank you to the judges for shortlisting Bright Fear 🧡
Huge congratulations to all tonight’s winners:
Malika Booker
@MalikaBooker
Bohdan Piasecki
@beveryquiet
Momtaza Mehri
@RuffneckRefugee
Jason Allen-Paisant
@jallenpaisant
And to all who were shortlisted and commended.
#ForwardPrizes
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Had such a lovely time reading with
@nadineaishaj
yesterday at
@StAnzaPoetry
& was so happy to catch up with
@rosaetc
@pat_err
@LilyBlacksell
@soshunetwork
@EllaFrears
@KatrinaNaomi
& to meet
@SuzannahVEvans
! Am grateful to the festival for two rejuvenating days at St Andrews 💛
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Amazing to hear
@HelenMort
read in my hometown
@litfest_hk
alongside Adam O'Riordan and Carol Ann Duffy!
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"That adolescent wish that the mother knows your pain without your having to describe it. But children have to learn to say they are in pain. To name it. The naming even helps heal it." - Alexander Chee, How to Write an Autobiographical Novel (2018)
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It's here! And the pamphlets have gone to print! 🤓
Next, the cover design (by
@carlinecreative
) for
@maryjean_chan
's
#ignitionpress
pamphlet 'A Hurry of English' (on sale 14/2)... (2/4)
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Thanks to
@justine_jordan
for the opportunity to review these four brilliant collections by
@RaymondAntrobus
@Gail_McConnell_
@danielsluman
&
@hannahlowepoet
for the September poetry roundup
@guardianreview
✨
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