My debut collection, ANGRY YELLOW WOMAN, is out NOW! You can get your copy from mu publisher, indie magic makers, Burning Eye, or via Waterstones, Foyles, or Amazon.

Best known as a co-author of The Good Immigrant (Book of the Year 2016, BBC Book of the Week, #1 Guardian Books and Amazon), which The Guardian called an “unflinching dialogue about race and racism in the UK”, I’m a poet who writes performative pieces. My first play, Rice!, a story of migration and the delicate balance of life between two cultures and the food that shapes it, was awarded funding by The British Council. This is an especially thoughtful review by Naomi Obeng for Exeunt.

‘It’s little surprise that Vera Chok’s poetry shares the same sharp qualities as her performances on screen and stage. 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

‘Angry Yellow Woman is outstanding and brilliant. It is unique and unflinching, powerful and moving. This work has a beautiful tenderness and wry humour. I love this book.’ SALENA GODDEN

‘Vera Chok’s poetry is by turns, thoughtful, political, mesmerising and absurdist. Their 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

‘Vera Chok’s debut collection deliciously delivers complex, rich, tender, harsh, breathless, sexy, rage-full poems-as-spells. Here are words which affect change— Vera’s enquiries invite us to challenge and confront more—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. Words like plants adjusting to the changes in weather and soil, resilient, persistent.’ BERNADETTE RUSSELL

‘This collection is a multilayered excavation into decades of built up microaggressions. The result is a mature poetic voice that boils over with visceral heat; at times seething, sometimes resigned, often hilarious.’ JENNY LAU

‘Lovely, joyful and strange. I loved it.’ ROWAN HISAYO BUCHANAN

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

‘Vera Chok is a connector and warrior, picking at the edges of representation, writing nakedly about the complexities of race and desire.’ CRESSIDA KOCIENSKI

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

‘thrilling...the narrative drive of prose and the ability of poetry to depict the experiential, to contain several moments in the same small space’ DZIFA BENSON, Wasafiri, on Gannet

‘incredible… made me fall in love with language all over again’ - DANIELLE MCLAUREN, Half Pint Poet

‘Your work is like nothing I’ve come across before. The way that you use words as an experimental medium to rhyme ideas and sound and language was so exciting, new, contemporary and emotive - ELLA FRADGLEY

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