Part 1 of The Red Dagger, a fascinating history of the poor from Heathcote Williams. When the power elite clamped down on the masses, Wat Tyler led a challenge and was martyred for it. I’m not saying we’re heading back to feudal times, but … Narration and montage by Alan Cox. Madam Miaow says … […]
The Red Dagger by Heathcote Williams: what the power elite do when the poor play up Read More »
I’d already expressed my delight in seeing Daniel York’s lively satire, The Fu Manchu Complex, at the Oval House Theatre last week, but a rash of resentful mainstream reviews prompts me to expand on my response. In particular, the Guardian’s theatre reviewer Maddy Costa seemed completely out of her depth, writing a stunningly superficial piece
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Anna Chen – 11 October 2013, Wigan Pier workshops Some of the lovely students from the afternoon session of my Poetry Against the Cuts class at the Wigan Pier Workshops, presented by the Orwell Prize. The workshops are held in the delightful bright and airy Sunshine House Community Centre in Wigan where Barbara and her
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You’ve had cat gifs galore. Here’s a cat poem from my animal-loving friend Barbara Finch — a tale of the bird-murdering Nefertiti. Nefertiti PussOh God made creatures great and smallAnd Nefertiti kills them all.Bad Nefertiti Puss. That bird you see upon the wing,It dare not part its beak to singFor fear that down on it
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Madam Miaow’s Culture Lounge returns to the St Ives Arts Festival following last year’s The Steampunk Opium Wars extravaganza that had a cast of thousands and played to a capacity audience of dozens. This year, I’ll read the first chapters of my novelisation of the The Steampunk Opium Wars: The Camellia and the Poppy which I’m having
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MINI REVIEW: Steampunk aesthetics and the history of cinema: what could go wrong? I watched Martin Scorsese’s Hugo last night and, although the visuals are stunning (I’d have loved to have seen this in 3D) the script was one of the worst things ever. Snobby middle-class preciousness (the cute kids with Rank starlet accents nearly
HUGO mini review: a dramatic turkey with brass knobs on. Read More »
