I’m afraid I’ve missed the 7th April launch date for the Chinese Labour Corps Memorial Campaign exhibition but it runs until 24th September 2017. Nearly 100,000 Chinese men served on the European battlefields of World War I doing the dirtiest and most dangerous jobs, clearing mines and dead bodies, and transporting explosives for the allied […]
Lemme see … in the week when Steve Bannon is finally ousted from the National Security Council (NSC) with nary a murmer from Trump who suddenly does a dramatic reverse on Syria in the very moments when Chinese President Xi Jinping is at Mar-a-Lago … Phew! All the behind-the-scenes action finally manifesting in the public
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Review of Lucy Chau Lai-Tuen’s poetry collection: glimpses of perpetual marginalisation A moving, fairly disturbing, collection of poetry from Hong-Kong-born writer and actor Lucy Chau Lai-Tuen, Ungrateful — A Paper Daughter, takes you deep inside the experience of perpetual marginalisation. All the small everyday unthinking acts of callousness that grind you down are laid bare
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Five stars for Heathcote Williams’ American Porn poetry collection: balancing passion and disgust on a razor’s edge Seems like we are all stuck in a science-fiction writer’s coma dream, so deeply weird have been events of the past year. The culmination was the installation by electoral college (as opposed to popular vote) of our Orange
It’s hard to believe that Cressida Dick, the woman at the head of the London Metropolitan Police operation that killed Jean Charles de Menezes, an innocent electrician, on the London tube in 2005 and terrified a whole lot of bystanders, is now running the police force. Whatever happened to holding power to account? The shooting
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In support of today’s One Day Without Us day of action in the UK, I’m posting my poetry on the subject throughout the day. With Charles Shaar Murray and Buffalo Bill Smith, St Ives festival 2009 Yellowface I’m Yellowface Gonna eat your soul I’m Yellowface I’m Yellowface Gonna swallow you whole I’m Yellowface Make you
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