Hayley Frances
Tues, 15th Oct, 19:00
Mary Jean Chan will guide participants through close readings of poems by Emily Berry, Marie Howe and Ross Gay.
Tue, 22 Oct 2024 19:00 - 21:00 BST
In this contemporary poetry workshop on 'elegy and elegiac writing', Mary Jean Chan will guide participants through close readings of poems by Emily Berry, Marie Howe and Ross Gay, culminating in a writing exercise that will allow participants to explore their own approach to elegiac writing.
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Mary Jean Chan is a Hong Kong-Chinese poet, lecturer, editor and critic whose debut poetry collection, Flèche, won the 2019 Costa Book Award in the poetry category. Chan’s second book, Bright Fear, was published by Faber in 2023 and short-listed for Best Collection at the Forwards. In 2023, Chan served as a judge for the Booker Prize.
Chan serves as a tutor on the MSt in Creative Writing at the University of Oxford and is the 2023-24 Judith E. Wilson Poetry Fellow at the University of Cambridge.
Mary Jean appeared at VERVE in 2020 as part of our Saturday Headline event alongside Caroline Bird, and again in 2022 to co-host our 100 Queer Poems event with Andrew McMillan.