Don’t ever accuse me of being behind on the news. I’ve been keeping up with the momentous event via regular reports from The Onion, and very grateful I am too. Otherwise I might have missed it. As poet laureate of Hackney (I’ll arm wrestle you for the title), here’s the first draft of my offering. […]
Royal baby birth poem: Eating Placenta Read More »
Madam Miaow says … visit Anna Chen’s website here: Home Anna’s food blog here: http://annacheneats.blogspot.com/
Margaret Thatcher Died at the Ritz: new poetry video from Anna Chen Read More »
“I Am Rich and You Are Poor: lines on dead Chinese workers and their rich benefactors”, Anna Chen’s poem about the 21 Chinese cocklepickers who died at Morecambe Bay in 2004. More from Anna’s Pop-Up poetry video collection BurgerYellowfacePoe Madam Miaow says … visit Anna Chen’s website here: Home Anna’s food blog here: http://annacheneats.blogspot.com/
I Am Rich and You Are Poor: poem by Anna Chen Read More »
I got to borrow my friend Sukey Parnell’s wonderful little pop-up studio on Friday. It’s a fold-up black velvet backdrop and a collapsible tubular metal frame. Filming in the north-facing bay window on my Panasonic Lumix TZ20 produced some interesting footage. Here, for your delectation, are some of the results from my playday. I Am
My new poetry videos: the Pop-Up collection Read More »
Look what that nice Mr Palast wrote about Reaching for my Gnu in Vice Magazine. “Anna Chen’s poetry wears wet leathers, red lipstick, stilettos – and is heavily armed. Her slim volume, Reaching for My Gnu, is filled with what I’d call ‘strap-on poems’. They look like an evening’s easy pleasure but are far more
Greg Palast enjoys Anna Chen’s “heavily armed” poetry Read More »
Charles Shaar Murray just read me a brilliant demolition of “Hong Kong Garden” by Siouxie Sioux and the Banshees and “Every Picture Tells A Story” by Rod Stewart from journalist and former NME writer Johnny “Cigarettes” Sharp who has written a most excellent book, Crap Lyrics (pub Portico). Punk rock never had any truck with
CRAP LYRICS: What do Siouxie Sioux and Rod Stewart share with Bernard Manning? Read More »
