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22 July 2020

Field Notes on a Family Meal

A new poem by Mary Jean Chan.

By Mary Jean Chan

30th November 1956: A table laid with patterned glass dishes and cups. (Photo by Chaloner Woods/Getty Images)


Mary Jean Chan is the author of “Flèche” (Faber & Faber), which won the 2019 Costa Book Award for Poetry and was shortlisted for the 2020 International Dylan Thomas Prize.

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