Your Emergency Contact Has Experienced An Emergency by Chen Chen Peter Hughes and from the stimulus of

and from the stimulus of the other’s poem arriving in the e-mail in-tray

a glass to my lips and swallow

‘Like Larkin and Harrison

Kae Tempest

the poet can transmit the felt experience of his exceptional life to the reader

Your Emergency Contact Has Experienced An Emergency by Chen Chen Peter Hughes and from the stimulus ofWhat happens when everything falls away, when those you call on in times of need are themselves calling out for rescue? In his highly anticipated second collection, Chen Chen continues his exploration of family, both blood and chosen, examining what one inherits and what one invents, as a queer Asian American living through an era of Trump, mass shootings and the COVID 19 pandemic. With unexpected playfulness and irrepressible humour, these anarchic