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Mary Jean Chan & Andrew McMillan: Bright Fear
Mary Jean Chan & Andrew McMillan: Bright Fear
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Length:
56 minutes
Released:
Feb 14, 2024
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Podcast episode
Description
Mary Jean Chan reads from their new collection, Bright Fear, and discuss it with Andrew McMillan.Chan’s debut, Fleche, won the Costa Book Award for Poetry in 2019. Bright Fear extends and develops that collection’s themes of identity, multilingualism and postcolonial legacy, while remaining deeply attuned to moments of tenderness, beauty and grace.Andrew McMillan’s most recent collection is pandemonium (Cape, 2021); a novel, Pity, is forthcoming in 2024. Together with Chan, he edited the landmark anthology 100 Queer Poems(Penguin). Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Released:
Feb 14, 2024
Format:
Podcast episode
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