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I know, I thought, it’s late with at least 20 minutes before I drop off. Perfect to start reading that Ezra Pound collection that’s been sitting there two years. Never mind what they say about his politics, I’ll read him for the poetry and filter out the other stuff. Here’s the first poem I read: […]

Visual trickery as the artist turns his grey world to colour. Madam Miaow says … visit Anna Chen’s website here: Home Anna’s food blog here: http://annacheneats.blogspot.com/

I was pleasantly surprised to find that the new Beatles musical, Let It Be, was pretty good in a superior tribute-band kind of way. Above, my review in the Morning Star on why it did not suck. Madam Miaow says … visit Anna Chen’s website here: Home Anna’s food blog here: http://annacheneats.blogspot.com/

I’m standing in for Zoe Baxter this weekend, reading from my poetry collection REACHING FOR MY GNU, accompanied by Charles Shaar Murray on guitar. My guests will be travel writer Navjot Singh who lives and works in China and has witnessed some startling changes since his first visit in 2003. Plus Hi Ching, performer and

“Now then, now then. How’s about that, then, guys and gals?” What adds the extra dimension of horror to the revelations about Sir Jimmy Savile OBE’s sexual predilections, quelle surprise, is the power involved. Not just that the BBC and police, as huge institutions, closed ranks around their star — they do that all the

Hilarious, delightful and most cheering. After the free download day for my poetry book on Amazon to mark National Poetry Day, Reaching for my Gnu has hit number 3 in the Kindle free poetry list in Bestsellers out of THOUSANDS. Look, pictorial proof that my baby did well. Thank you to everyone who downloaded my