The UK Slam Championships last night was one of the best Farrago Poetry events I’ve been to. It was an honour and a pleasure to have been asked to judge, along with Charles Shaar Murray, by Farrago founder John Paul O’Neill. The Slam contest is interspersed with guest feature poets. I read from Reaching for […]
Stephanie Dogfoot Chan wins the Farrago UK Slam Poetry Championships 2012 Read More »
Ain’t life funny? The HSBC started off in the 19th century opium wars, servicing the British narcocapitalists, and here they are still at it, laundering drugs money for Mexican drugs lords. You’d think, given the severity of US drugs laws and how they slap every spliffer and cannabis-dealing youth into jail — especially if they’re
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I’m a guest poet at the UK Poetry Slam on Tuesday where I’ll be reading from Reaching for my Gnu now available as a paperback on Amazon. Charles Shaar Murray and I are also judging. * * * * * The UK SLAM! Championships are on TUESDAY 11th December @ RADA Foyer Bar, starting off
Anna does poetry at Farrago on Tuesday Read More »
A little update: in my perennial battle against the flab, I have taken to running very fast on the spot — a bit like the red queen with similar health results — mostly in the kitchen while the kettle boils. Warm-ups have been cursory; a bit of toe-touching, the odd yoga stretch. So I was
Keeping fit makes you ill: on crutches, hands, knees and bumpsadaisy Read More »
If you could go back in time and nobble the architects of some of the greatest disasters in history, would you do it? Luckily we don’t have to time-travel to ensure press control does not pass into the hands of the government, ending our tradition of a free press — we’re already here and staring
Press baron monopoly and supine police the problem, not the law: Leveson report wrong Read More »
With charges of “sour grapes” and claims that east Asians couldn’t be cast in parts that had no “Chinese connection”, there’s an awful lot to discuss concerning the Royal Shakespeare Company’s The Orphan of Zhao. So it’s a shame that the RSC declined an invitation to take part in a debate between members of the
RSC The Orphan of Zhao debate Part 2: British East Asian Artists discussion Read More »
