I’m a guest poet at the UK Poetry Slam on Tuesday where I’ll be reading from Reaching for my Gnu now available as a paperback on Amazon. Charles Shaar Murray and I are also judging. * * * * * The UK SLAM! Championships are on TUESDAY 11th December @ RADA Foyer Bar, starting off […]
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With charges of “sour grapes” and claims that east Asians couldn’t be cast in parts that had no “Chinese connection”, there’s an awful lot to discuss concerning the Royal Shakespeare Company’s The Orphan of Zhao. So it’s a shame that the RSC declined an invitation to take part in a debate between members of the
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The Royal Shakespeare Company declined this chance to debate with members of the British East Asian Artists group who had been critical of the casting for The Orphan of Zhao, a Chinese classic. The 17 roles included only three BEAs, and those were in minor parts: chiefly working a puppet dog, and playing a maid
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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”.
Anna Chen at Farrago Poetry Nov 2012: bringing the funny Read More »
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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Here’s a video of me at the China In Britain series of events at Westminster University in London this year. Charles Shaar Murray played guitar and I sang Anna May Wong Must Die!, Yellowface and The Camellia and the Poppy (from The Steampunk Opium Wars). Organised by Dr Anne Witchard and Dr Diana Yeh. Recorded
Poetry, songs and chat at China In Britain, Westminster University Read More »
