Anna Chen – 11 October 2013, Wigan Pier workshops Some of the lovely students from the afternoon session of my Poetry Against the Cuts class at the Wigan Pier Workshops, presented by the Orwell Prize. The workshops are held in the delightful bright and airy Sunshine House Community Centre in Wigan where Barbara and her […]
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You’ve had cat gifs galore. Here’s a cat poem from my animal-loving friend Barbara Finch — a tale of the bird-murdering Nefertiti. Nefertiti PussOh God made creatures great and smallAnd Nefertiti kills them all.Bad Nefertiti Puss. That bird you see upon the wing,It dare not part its beak to singFor fear that down on it
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Madam Miaow’s Culture Lounge returns to the St Ives Arts Festival following last year’s The Steampunk Opium Wars extravaganza that had a cast of thousands and played to a capacity audience of dozens. This year, I’ll read the first chapters of my novelisation of the The Steampunk Opium Wars: The Camellia and the Poppy which I’m having
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MINI REVIEW: Steampunk aesthetics and the history of cinema: what could go wrong? I watched Martin Scorsese’s Hugo last night and, although the visuals are stunning (I’d have loved to have seen this in 3D) the script was one of the worst things ever. Snobby middle-class preciousness (the cute kids with Rank starlet accents nearly
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Don’t ever accuse me of being behind on the news. I’ve been keeping up with the momentous event via regular reports from The Onion, and very grateful I am too. Otherwise I might have missed it. As poet laureate of Hackney (I’ll arm wrestle you for the title), here’s the first draft of my offering.
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Margaret Thatcher Died at the Ritz: new poetry video from Anna Chen Read More »
