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National Poetry Day 7 October A Poem to Share The Windowby Mary Jean Chan, after Marie HoweOnce in a lifetime, you will gestureat an open window, tell the one whodetests the queerness in you that deaddaughters do not disappoint, free yoursore knees from inching towards a kindof reprieve, declare yourself genderlessas hawk or sparrow: an encumbered bodylet loose from its cage. You will refuseyour mother’s rage, her spit, her tongueheavy like the heaviest of stones. Heranger is like the sun, which is like love,which is the easiest thing, even on thehardest of days. You will linger, knowingthat this standing before an open windowis what the living do: that they sometimesreconsider at the slightest touch of grace. © Mary Jean Chan, from The National Poetry Competition/The Poetry Society.‘The Window’ was shortlisted for the Forward Prizes for Poetry 2019 and features in The Forward Book of Poetry 2020 (Bookmark Content, £9.99) and Mary’s collection Flèche (Faber, 2019).With kind permission of the poetMary Jean ChanMary Jean Chan is the author of Flèche, published by Faber & Faber (2019). Flèche won the Costa Book Award for Poetry and was shortlisted for the International Dylan Thomas Prize and the Seamus Heaney Centre First Collection Poetry Prize. Chan's poetry has featured in or is forthcoming from The Guardian, The New Statesman, The New Republic, The White Review and The Poetry Review. Chan won the 2018 Geoffrey Dearmer Prize and was shortlisted for the Forward Prize for Best Single Poem twice, receiving an Eric Gregory Award in 2019. In Spring 2020, Chan was guest co-editor at The Poetry Review. Born and raised in Hong Kong, Chan is Senior Lecturer in Creative Writing (Poetry) at Oxford Brookes University and lives in London. bit.ly/3etJ3ek ... See MoreSee Less

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