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A review by tasdetrucs
Flèche by Mary Jean Chan
5.0
‘This is how heretics become holy’
The completely deserved winner of the recent Costa poetry prize. Unlike anything I’ve ever read. A powerful (and timely, contemporary and gorgeous) poetry anthology, which explores queerness, what it is to be a woman, multilingualism, questions of identity (gender, cultural and racial) and the Chinese cultural revolution - all with profoundly beautiful undertones of culture and tradition, mother and childhood. Just so, so good.
The completely deserved winner of the recent Costa poetry prize. Unlike anything I’ve ever read. A powerful (and timely, contemporary and gorgeous) poetry anthology, which explores queerness, what it is to be a woman, multilingualism, questions of identity (gender, cultural and racial) and the Chinese cultural revolution - all with profoundly beautiful undertones of culture and tradition, mother and childhood. Just so, so good.