Flèche

WINNER OF THE COSTA POETRY AWARD
POETRY BOOK SOCIETY RECOMMENDATION

Flèche (the French word for 'arrow') is an offensive technique commonly used in fencing, a sport of Mary Jean Chan's young adult years, when they competed locally and internationally for their home city, Hong Kong.

Mary Jean Chan grew up in Hong Kong and studied at Swarthmore College, the University of Oxford and Royal Holloway, University of London. Their debut pamphlet, A Hurry of English , was selected as the 2018 Poetry Book Society Summer Pamphlet Choice. In 2017, Chan's poem '//' was shortlisted for the 2017 Forward Prize for Best Single Poem. They are a Ledbury Poetry Critic, editor of Oxford Poetry , advisory board member at the Poetry Translation Centre and member of the Folio Prize Academy. They are a Lecturer in Creative Writing (Poetry) at Oxford Brookes University and live in London.