PREORDER - signed copy - ANGRY YELLOW WOMAN

My debut poetry collection, arriving April 11 2024.

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

Outstanding and brilliant. It is unique and unflinching, powerful and moving. This work has a beautiful tenderness and wry humour. - SALENA GODDEN

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

Searing, soaring words. This is a glorious, furious exhalation. - MUSA OKWONGA

Deliciously delivers complex, rich, tender, harsh, breathless, sexy, rage-full poems-as-spells. Her expressions of anger and lust somehow gave me permission
to consider my own. Visceral and breathtaking, vulnerable and tough. They
are words like pearls found miles from the sea. - BERNADETTE RUSSELL

Visceral, gut-punching, compelling. Vera Chok is one to watch - HELENA LEE

Lovely, joyful and strange. I loved it. - ROWAN HISAYO BUCHANON

"Angry Yellow Woman is Vera Chok’s debut collection. 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."

Publisher: Burning Eye Books
ISBN: 9781913958473
Number of pages: 100
Dimensions: 198 x 129 mm