Anna Chen – Thursday, 15 November 2012 At last it is out. I’ve been champing at the bit, positively having a conniption while all the reviews came out, but finally mine is published and here it is. A quick update: the British East Asian Artists have sprung up to challenge these archaic attitudes towards us […]
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Here for your pleasure is a video of my gig last night as a guest poet at the Farrago Poetry Slam London heat of the 2012 Slam championships. Congrats to Richard Marsh who goes on to the next heat. I’m performing “Poe”, “Daddy Freud”, “Travelogue” and “Ode to a Detox on Returning from St Ives”.
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As the rot sets in, here’s a poem about the collapse of our institutions. A big rock has been lifted and look what’s crawling out: Hillsborough, press hacking, Jimmy Savile at Broadmoor and the BBC, wars, widespread robbery of the poor to pay for the rich. Capitalist production moves from the west to Asia and
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Aaaargh! Press will be publishing Reaching for my Gnu, Anna Chen’s collection of poetry, for kindle and in good old-fashioned analogue hard copy very soon. DESCRIPTION “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
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A few performances dates coming up: Wednesday 18th July (time TBC) Anna gives a talk on Chinese representation on the UK stage at the Chinese In Britain event at the Old Cinema, Westminster University, Regent St W1. Thursday 28th June Anna and Charles Shaar Murray perform at Sash Selavie’s Gender Genocide evening at the Royal
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Finally uploaded the lovely portraits taken by Sukey Parnell of the cast of The Steampunk Opium Wars debut at the National Maritime Museum in London earlier this year. As well as Sukey’s pix, the poems written by cast-members are also on these pages. There’s a serious intention in writing and performing the show. After we
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