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Anna Chen’s live dates coming up in London

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Political poetry in London — Anna Chen at Campaign Against Climate Change Looking forward to performing poetry at the Campaign Against Climate Change cabaret 6-11pm, Sat 31 May at the old Amnesty HQ, 25 New Inn Yard, London EC2A 3EA. £10 & £7 https://www.facebook.com/campaigncc https://twitter.com/campaigncc http://www.campaigncc.org/events/2014/Cabaret Wednesday 21st May 4pm, another China Diaspora in Britain […]

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My poetry gig at YW8, The Proud Archivist, tomorrow at 8.30pm

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Anna Chen performs poetry for the YW8 launch at The Proud Archivist in east London tomorrow. I’ll be doing some of the funnier poetry. It’s a new arts centre on the Regents Canal just off Kingland Road, near where I was born and raised, a po’ Chinese Brit gurl in deepest Hackney. Although the gig

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Happy Chinese New Year of the Horse: and a poem about panda sex

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Last night I won the annual Farrago Poetry Zoo Award for Best Performance by a London Poet for 2013. Held at the RADA Café in Malet Street, the Farrago poetry events are supportive and inclusive, not to mention exciting, showcases for some very hot new talent. Thank you to everyone who voted for me. What

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Prayer Before Birth by Louis Macneice: a guiding light in a mad world

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The world is going insane, the Tory narrative has set like concrete, the far left has lost its marbles along with its principles and judgement. Never mind the empty left rhetoric, here’s my favourite poem that’s been a guiding light since my teens. Prayer Before Birth I am not yet born; O hear me.Let not

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The Red Dagger by Heathcote Williams: what the power elite do when the poor play up

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Part 1 of The Red Dagger, a fascinating history of the poor from Heathcote Williams. When the power elite clamped down on the masses, Wat Tyler led a challenge and was martyred for it. I’m not saying we’re heading back to feudal times, but … Narration and montage by Alan Cox. Madam Miaow says …

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Fu Manchu Complex review: a boisterous romp through the yellow peril canon

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I’d already expressed my delight in seeing Daniel York’s lively satire, The Fu Manchu Complex, at the Oval House Theatre last week, but a rash of resentful mainstream reviews prompts me to expand on my response. In particular, the Guardian’s theatre reviewer Maddy Costa seemed completely out of her depth, writing a stunningly superficial piece

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