Last night I won the annual Farrago Poetry Zoo Award for Best Performance by a London Poet for 2013. Held at the RADA Café in Malet Street, the Farrago poetry events are supportive and inclusive, not to mention exciting, showcases for some very hot new talent. Thank you to everyone who voted for me. What […]
Happy Chinese New Year of the Horse: and a poem about panda sex Read More »
I’m sure the first thing we all thought when we saw the photo of Dasha Zhukova Abramovich and the bondage chair was: ooh, hot BDSM. My own race play consists of me as Kato doing a kung fu leap on Loved One as Inspector Clouseau, and then yelling at him in some guttural language that
Photo: Pak Hung Chan In 2007 I made a ten-part series for BBC Radio 4 called Chinese In Britain. Along with my wonderful producer Mukti Jain Campion at Culture Wise, we covered hitherto largely unknown issues and events such as the forced repatriation by the Atlee government of Chinese seamen who’d risked their lives keeping
The world is going insane, the Tory narrative has set like concrete, the far left has lost its marbles along with its principles and judgement. Never mind the empty left rhetoric, here’s my favourite poem that’s been a guiding light since my teens. Prayer Before Birth I am not yet born; O hear me.Let not
Prayer Before Birth by Louis Macneice: a guiding light in a mad world Read More »
The new £2 coin — such an ugly thing in so many ways. This government glorifies something recognised as a catastrophe, an unprecedented horror where millions of men (lions led by donkeys) died at the Front. World War I wasn’t the war to end all wars (otherwise it would just be “the World War”) but
Blood money: the new £2 coin celebrates Kitchener and World War 1 Read More »
Part 1 of The Red Dagger, a fascinating history of the poor from Heathcote Williams. When the power elite clamped down on the masses, Wat Tyler led a challenge and was martyred for it. I’m not saying we’re heading back to feudal times, but … Narration and montage by Alan Cox. Madam Miaow says …
The Red Dagger by Heathcote Williams: what the power elite do when the poor play up Read More »
