Angry Yellow Woman

Author(s): Chok, Vera,
Binding: Paperback,
Date of Publication: 11/04/2024,
Pagination: 100 pages,
Series: N/A,
Imprint: Burning Eye Books,
Published By: Burning Eye Books,
Book Classification: Poetry by individual poets,
Dimensions: 139 x 216 x 10
ISBN13/EAN/SKU: 9781913958473

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Angry Yellow Woman is the debut poetry collection from Vera Chok. 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.