20 October 2021 - 20 October 2021
5:30PM - 6:30PM
Online (Zoom)
Free
To mark the beginning of Inventions of the Text for 2021/22, all are welcome to join us for a poetry reading with Mary Jean Chan.
Inventions of the Text
‘The reader stares at my 皮膚 and asks: why don’t you write in 中文? I reply: 殖民主義 meant that I was brought up in your image. Let us be honest. Had I not learnt 英文 and come to your shores, you wouldn’t be reading this poem at all.’ – from ‘Written in a Historically White Space (1)’
‘The reader stares at my 皮膚 and asks: why don’t you write in 中文? I reply: 殖民主義 meant that I was brought up in your image. Let us be honest. Had I not learnt 英文 and come to your shores, you wouldn’t be reading this poem at all.’
– from ‘Written in a Historically White Space (1)’
We hope you will join us for what promises to be a fascinating hour of poetry and discussion. Register for the event or email inventionsofthetext@gmail.com for further details.
Senior Lecturer in Creative Writing (Poetry), Oxford Brookes University
Mary Jean Chan is a poet, lecturer, editor and critic. Interweaving themes of multilingualism, queerness, family and cultural history, Chan’s first poetry collection, Flèche, explores the conflict between selfhood and the external world, the human instinct for resistance against oppression, and, ultimately, the will to and for love. Flèche won the 2019 Costa Book Award in the Poetry category and is a Poetry Book Society Recommendation.
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