Mary Jean Chan reads 'Altered Nature' written in response to the P&P commission 'Altered Nature'.
Channel: Poets & Players
Date: 2020-03-21

Notes:
This poem was written before the arrival of Covid-19 in the UK. 
We have captioned the poem but you can read the poem in its original form on our website https://wp.me/p1O6so-Of
 
Mary Jean Chan is a London-based poet from Hong Kong. She is an editor of Oxford Poetry and a Lecturer in Creative Writing (Poetry) at Oxford Brookes University. She came Second in the 2017 National Poetry Competition, and has been shortlisted for the Forward Prize for Best Single Poem twice. She received an Eric Gregory Award in 2019, and won the 2018 Poetry Society Geoffrey Dearmer Prize for her collection’s title poem. Flèche (Faber & Faber, 2019). Her collection Flèche won the Costa Poetry Prize 2019.