Aaaargh! Press has published Reaching for my Gnu, Anna Chen’s funny and often hilarious collection of poetry, for Kindle on Amazon here. In good old-fashioned analogue hard copy (pub Feb 2013).
UK Kindle — £1.99
UK Paperback — £9.99
US Kindle — $2.97
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“THE POEMS IN THIS COLLECTION are graceful, muscular, playful, rich in both emotional depth and intellectual rigour; brimful of righteous anger and piercing wit; intent on revitalising both the truism that ‘the political is personal’ and its obverse – that the personal is political – by gleefully annihilating any notional barriers remaining between the two.” CHARLES SHAAR MURRAY
“Brilliant and dangerous. Anna Chen operates one wild-ride roller coaster that soars to altitudes of unfettered wit and then plunges with a startling and implacably knowing anger … ‘What work of depravity is a man who amasses more than he can spend in a lifespan?’ Her deck of cultural references includes Poe and Freud, Stalin and Hemingway, junk food, Marlon Brando, Moby Dick, and Anna May Wong, and she deals these cards face up with a unerringly sense of history uniquely coupled with a perception that’s as topical as tomorrow.” MICK FARREN
“Anna Chen is fighting the good fight with fierce, funny, moving and sulphurous poems. You wouldn’t want to cross her, but you want to read her.” HEATHCOTE WILLIAMS
” … heartfelt, funny, satirical, accessible and strong.” LABOUR BRIEFING
“ It’s saucy, devilish and delightful!” MY ASIAN PLANET
“Superb.” GREG PALAST
“Fucking brilliant. I couldn’t put it down.” WILKO JOHNSON
“… a strange rendezvous of language, wit, and the imagination. … She fully integrates the movingly personal, the vibrantly social and the diablolically political. Her rhyming is frequently quasi-Byronic, full of surprise and acerbic invention … Burning words, full of life and truth.” CHRIS SEARLE MORNING STAR
PRAISE FOR ANNA CHEN
“Cutting edge” STEWART LEE
“Very witty” GRAHAM NORTON
“Charming, witty and sophisticated.” SUNDAY TIMES