Who is Mary Sue? by Sophie Collins PBS Choice Spring 2018 Menna Elfyn If they made him Poet

If they made him Poet Laureate on Friday

these extraordinary poems may unsettle and disturb

Peter Didsbury

’ William Logan

Who is Mary Sue? by Sophie Collins <b> PBS Choice Spring 2018 </b> Menna Elfyn If they made him PoetIn the language of fan fiction, a Mary Sue is an idealised and implausibly flawless character: a female archetype that can infuriate audiences for its perceived narcissism. Such is the setting for this important debut by Sophie Collins. In a series of verse and prose collages, Who Is Mary Sue? exposes the presumptive politics behind writing and readership: the notion that men invent while women reflect; that a man writes of the world outside while a