Arts – Anna Chen

“Shergar burger” Anna Chen with a prescient poem about what’s in your burger

Tescos, Burger King and now Waitrose have been caught in the adulterated food scandal where up to 29 per cent of some burgers have been found to contain horsemeat. Less worrisome than the squeamishness about eating my friend Flicka is the obvious problem that racehorse flesh will contain various cancer-causing nasties injected over careers shorter […]

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Occupied Friern Barnet Library cabaret: Save the library in court on Monday

Leave a Comment / Arts, Politics / Anna Chen / 15/12/2012

Had a lovely time tonight at the Occupied Friern Barnet Library. Thanks to Phoenix, Barbara Gordon, Poppy, Angel MC, all the acts and everyone who packed out the place, proving how wonderful a community hub can be. I hadn’t realised that the library is the last public space in Friern Barnet, so the philistine decision

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Anna does poetry at Farrago on Tuesday

Leave a Comment / Anna Chen, Arts / Anna Chen / 09/12/2012

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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Keeping fit makes you ill: on crutches, hands, knees and bumpsadaisy

4 Comments / Arts / Anna Chen / 08/12/2012

A little update: in my perennial battle against the flab, I have taken to running very fast on the spot — a bit like the red queen with similar health results — mostly in the kitchen while the kettle boils. Warm-ups have been cursory; a bit of toe-touching, the odd yoga stretch. So I was

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RSC The Orphan of Zhao review: Aladdin for middle-class grown-ups

1 Comment / reviews / Anna Chen / 15/11/2012

Anna Chen – Thursday, 15 November 2012 At last it is out. I’ve been champing at the bit, positively having a conniption while all the reviews came out, but finally mine is published and here it is. A quick update: the British East Asian Artists have sprung up to challenge these archaic attitudes towards us

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Anna Chen at Farrago Poetry Nov 2012: bringing the funny

Leave a Comment / Anna Chen, Arts / Anna Chen / 10/11/2012

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”.

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