SHEVCHENKO KNIGHT
A spellbinding evening of poetry.
POETRY
MARY
CHARLOTTE
CLUB:
JEAN CHAN &
POETRY CLUB:
MARY JEAN CHAN & CHARLOTTE SHEVCHENKO KNIGHT
MARY JEAN CHAN
Mary Jean Chan is the author of Flèche (Faber & Faber, 2019), which won the Costa Book Award for Poetry and was shortlisted for multiple awards, including the International Dylan Thomas Prize and the Seamus Heaney Centre First Collection Poetry Prize. Bright Fear (Faber, 2023), Chan’s second book, was shortlisted for the 2023 Forward Prize for Best Collection and is currently shortlisted for the 2024 Writers’ Prize. A recent judge for the 2023 Booker Prize, Chan is currently the 2023-24 Judith E. Wilson Poetry Fellow at the University of Cambridge
‘Mary Jean Chan’s second collection, Bright Fear (Faber), heightens their trademark lyric elegance with an acknowledgment of the cost that poetry can demand: “I have been trained to plunder my own thoughts, exploit my deepest resources”.’ –
Guardian Best Poetry Books of 2023
CHARLOTTE SHEVCHENKO KNIGHT
Charlotte Shevchenko Knight is a poet of both British and Ukrainian heritage. She is a recipient of an Eric Gregory Award for her powerful debut collection Food for the Dead about Ukrainian identity, giving a wider more accurate context to the current war as well as a more human focus, it was published by Jonathan Cape this February. Her debut pamphlet Ways of Healing was a winner of the New Poets Prize. Shevchenko Knight is currently undertaking a PhD at Manchester Metropolitan University and is based in York.
‘An astonishing, lacerating, unforgettable debut, full of acutely evocative poems of food and famine in Ukraine, and of an adolescence lived in the shadow of trauma and extreme hunger. These are poems of deep beauty, furious survival, and abiding familial love.’
– Fiona Benson, author of Ephemeron
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