As the rot sets in, here’s a poem about the collapse of our institutions. A big rock has been lifted and look what’s crawling out: Hillsborough, press hacking, Jimmy Savile at Broadmoor and the BBC, wars, widespread robbery of the poor to pay for the rich. Capitalist production moves from the west to Asia and […]
Peach: poem about Savile, Hillsborough, Leveson, the whole sorry lot! 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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A few performances dates coming up: Wednesday 18th July (time TBC) Anna gives a talk on Chinese representation on the UK stage at the Chinese In Britain event at the Old Cinema, Westminster University, Regent St W1. Thursday 28th June Anna and Charles Shaar Murray perform at Sash Selavie’s Gender Genocide evening at the Royal
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Finally uploaded the lovely portraits taken by Sukey Parnell of the cast of The Steampunk Opium Wars debut at the National Maritime Museum in London earlier this year. As well as Sukey’s pix, the poems written by cast-members are also on these pages. There’s a serious intention in writing and performing the show. After we
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The bankers staged a coup while out attention was elsewhere and now everything is run for them. This item from December— found by Niall Spooner-Harvey — sums up the situation: Unchecked by toothless regulators and set free by poorly drawn capital requirements, the banks rampaged across the continent, chucking cheap money at Greece and Italy,
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The Opium War by Julia Lovell Review by Anna Chen – 17 May 2012 The nationalist not only does not disapprove of atrocities committed by his own side, but he has a remarkable capacity for not even hearing about them.George Orwell With renewed calls for the West to assert its imperial might in the interest
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