A brief history of the Chinese who came to Britain by Anna Chen. In 2022, two Grand Narratives jockey for position defining China and its global diaspora: one which demonises, and the other which humanises.
It’s a whole month since the devastating fire at Grenfell Tower in London, yet the conflagration that killed 80 people seems ever present. A bonfire of regulations & a raft of corrupt, money-grabbing decisions led here. Will we ever see justice?
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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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I Am Rich and You Are Poor: lines on dead Chinese workers and their rich benefactors by Anna Chen 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. I Am Rich and You Are Poor Lines on dead Chinese workers
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