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Author: Chok, Vera

Poetry by individual poets

Published on 11 April 2024 by Burning Eye Books in the United Kingdom.

Paperback | 100 pages
139 x 216 x 10 | 146g

Angry Yellow Woman is Vera Chok’s debut collection. Is Vera a woman, though? And how yellow are they? The anger is real. These playful, searching, and violently sexy pieces expose Vera’s immigrant-hobo journey through the landscapes, beds, and bodies of the UK and beyond. They were scratched out to understand an alien identity. They’re a record of how – and where – Vera has tried to locate safety and joy. At the ends of the earth, or down Bethnal Green station? It might be a coming-of-age tale, but this Colonised body seems stuck dreaming of the Empire – flat nose pressed up against the window of Tesco, Chinese eyes wide, hungry. Mouth sighing Malay.