SPOILER ALERT!!! Oh the excitement as the Amazon package containing another 3D blu-ray movie drops through the door. This week it’s the fifth in the much-loved Terminator franchise, Terminator Genisys which I’ve had on order for weeks and which was at long last released on November 2nd. But yikes … After a promising start with […]
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Here’s my poem about the current welcome rush to the heart and head. I guess that makes me a Poet for Jeremy Corbyn too. LABOUR PAINS We snapped on a light and in the glare all was laid bare. Suddenly Yvette Cooper wasn’t so super, Kendall won’t mend anything at all ‘cause Liz fights tooth
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I was a guest on the BBC World Service Weekend programme on Saturday, talking about the news: the Middle East, The Catholic Synod, Ebola and sheds. This year is the tenth anniversary of the Morecambe Bay Chinese cocklepickers disaster so I read my poem, “I Am Rich and Your Are Poor: lines on dead Chinese
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Why is Peter Capaldi flashing his red bits like a lady baboon, and other questions. SPOILER ALERT Anna Chen’s review of Dr Who “Deep Breath” first broadcast BBC1, Saturday 23rd August 2014 The Dalek was eyeing up some poor bastard on the far side of the room. It hadn’t yet seen me, so I backed
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A reminder about Liverpool tomorrow. I’m looking forward to giving my China Diaspora in Britain talk plus a poetry reading from Reaching for my Gnu at the Il Forno Restaurant in Duke Street, Liverpool, tomorrow at 4pm. My dad lived in Liverpool from the 1920s before he moved to London. It’s the International Festival of
Anna Chen gives her Chinese Diaspora in Britain talk and reads poetry at the International Festival of Business China Day launching ‘Opera for Chinatown’ in Liverpool. I’m really looking forward to doing this live event in Liverpool. “Writer, poet and broadcaster Anna Chen is coming to Liverpool on the 18th June to celebrate International Festival
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