ARGONAUT BOOKS

These extraordinary poems stage a reckoning - a woman refusing the labels imposed upon her and naming herself Melete, asserting her right to forge her own identity. They speak powerfully against exoticism, stereotyping, and the manifold forms of racism experienced by the Chinese in Britain. At the same time, they enact the Chinese tenet of ancestral veneration, animating the distinct presences of forebears and honouring the multiple roots - from China and within England itself - through which the speaker comes into being. This is a fierce and intelligent collection, threaded with moments of ar...Read More