Angry Yellow Woman by Vera Chok

Name: Angry Yellow Woman by Vera Chok
Brand: Burning Eye Books
SKU: 105890796
Price: 9.99 GBP
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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.

‘It’s little surprise that Vera Chok’s poetry shares the same sharp qualities as her performances on screen and stage. Every line in this radical collection is alive, yes, with anger, but also acute observation, boundless humour and an entirely singular imagination. Part memoir, part essay, part prose poem, Angry Yellow Woman is an explosion of words that deserves attention and demands to be read.’
Lara Pawson

‘Angry Yellow Woman is outstanding and brilliant. It is unique and unflinching, powerful and moving. This work has a beautiful tenderness and wry humour.’
Salena Godden

‘Vera Chok’s poetry is by turns, thoughtful, political, mesmerising and absurdist. Her ability to move from belly splitting laughs to devastating quiet moments while also maintaining a fluid politics that never overshadows the lyrical wordplay is masterful, playful and brilliant.’
Nikesh Shukla

Vera Chok (they/she) is a queer Malaysian-Chinese actor, funny-person, poet and dogmum. They are both Disruptor and Homemaker.
Best known as a co-author of The Good Immigrant; Vera wrote the chapter, Yellow, which exploded ideas around “East Asianness”.
Vera has been published by The Guardian, Bloomsbury, and Brain Mill Press, and in Rising and Transect magazine. They have been commissioned by The Roundhouse, CNN, WeTransfer, and
Hakkasan Group, and funded by The British Council. Their writing has been performed at The Roundhouse, Shakespeare North, Rich Mix, and at Byline, Stoke Newington, Dinefwr, Cambridge, and Bare Lit Festivals. Vera is also a regular participant and sometimes champion of Varjack & Simpson’s Anti-Slam. Vera co-founded The Brautigan Book Club, was a resident artist at the Bethnal Green Working Men’s Club, and the actor who played Honour Chen-Williams, head of the first ever East Asian family in any UK continuing drama. They produce both gently joyful happenings and mischievous, chaotic celebrations to platform historically marginalised groups.