“Burning words full of life and truth”: review of my poetry in the Morning Star

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Quasi gal, quasi Byronic. It’s official — I write like the poetry dudes of old. I’m delighted and a bit stunned to read a wonderful review of my poetry collection, Reaching for my Gnu, in today’s Morning Star, written by writer and revolutionary teacher Chris Searle. Chris says of my poetry: “… a strange rendezvous of language, […]

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In the Ai of the beholder: my theatre review of The Arrest of Ai Weiwei

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The Arrest of Ai WeiweiHampstead Theatre, London NW3 If martial arts functions by using your opponents’ weight against them, then artist Ai Weiwei must be the Bruce Lee of annoying the hell out of the Chinese government. He’s transformed dissidence into performance art, rendering him embarrassingly effective in resisting official persecution. Howard Brenton’s play The

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May Day poetry: Credit Crunch Suicide from Anna Chen

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Had a lovely gig last night at the Morning Star‘s May Day celebrations in Kilburn, London. Also playing, singer songwriter Sean Taylor, a wonderful guitarist. Q Magazine called him, “A bluesey devotional intensity that rightly draws comparisons to John Martyn”. And they;’re right. Khamis and J-Mac were our DJs for the night, while Attila the

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A Dame of Thrones: Bowie weekender at the V&A Museum with Charles Shaar Murray and Barry Miles

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My birthday celebrations (30th April, if you really must buy me a drink) got off to a cracking start on Saturday with the Bowie weekender and two days of mostly free events at the V&A museum augmenting their stunning Bowie Is exhibition. Charles Shaar Murray and Barry Miles gave four talks on the 1960s counter-culture

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The Book of Mormon review: South Park creators’ gentle mayhem in London

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Here’s my review of The Book of Mormon for the Morning Star Thursday 25th April 2013. The Book of Mormon may not represent the much-heralded death of satire but, with full-page ads taken out in the show programme by lampooned subjects The Lion King and the Mormon church itself, this effervescent musical inches us ever

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