Your Emergency Contact Has Experienced An Emergency by Chen Chen Peter Hughes Neil Astley as founder and

Neil Astley as founder and editor of Bloodaxe Books and editor of the Staying Alive anthology series

and makes sure that they discover something inspirational

a glass to my lips and swallow

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

When Stephen Sexton was young

Your Emergency Contact Has Experienced An Emergency by Chen Chen Peter Hughes Neil Astley as founder andWhat 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