Bright Sorrow

Jonathan Chan
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9789819425426

the bright sorrow is always ringing, always ringing, and fading into forgetting

Jonathan Chan presents poems written through the years of the pandemic and eruptions of war and strife.

Each circles the notion of ‘bright sorrow’, a spiritual state characterised by a profound mingling of joy and grief. These poems look to repentance, to suffering, and to the contradiction of extremities, each glistening at their core.