A video selection of Anna Chen’s poetry, performance, politics and chat online and on stage.
POETRY: Poe, Daddy Freud, Ode to a Detox on Returning from St Ives
POETRY: Daddy Freud and To Adonis at his Toilet, St Ives May 2008
POETRY: Eating Placenta, Lines on the Royal Birth — August 2022
POETRY: 2B OR NOT 2B — April 2023
POETRY: Burger, 2013
POETRY: I Am Rich and You Are Poor: lines on dead Chinese workers and their rich benefactors, 2013
POETRY: Yellow face is the practice, like blackface, where white actors play east Asian acting roles, depriving ethnic actors of jobs and east Asians of representations of themselves in film, theatre and television. July 2013
POETRY: Credit Crunch Suicide, July 2013
POETRY: Anna reads Chi Chi’s Glorious Swansong at the Oxford and Cambridge Club in London, 2014.
POETRY: Anna Chen’s first public reading of “Margaret Thatcher Died at the Ritz”, written on the day news broke that the former prime minister had died … at the Ritz! Socialist poetry performed at the Morning Star May Day celebrations in Kilburn, 2013.
POETRY: Kicking a Dinosaur at the St Ives Café for the St Ives Festival, Cornwall, September 2011
POETRY: Anna Chen reads her poem, Big Society: On a conversation in the Foundling Museum. Café Art, St Ives Festival 15th September 2011
POETRY: Anna Chen performs Anna May Wong Must Die!, May 2009
POLITICS: Anna Chen speaks on the subject of the Internet and the Modern Self at the Frontline Club at The Orwell Prize launch, 2014.
CHAT: When Jerry Met Anna — 7 May 2023. Talking about everything from the war on China to growing up in the UK.
POLITICS: Anna Chen’s talk, A Short 21st Century Timeline of the Race to World War III, for No Cold War, 25 May 2022.
“When China explored the world in the 15th century and reached as far as East Africa, they traded a bit and brought back a giraffe. When Europeans landed in the Americas in 1492, they killed and enslaved its native peoples, stole their treasures and gave them smallpox blankets in an early form of biological warfare. “In North America, 100 million native Americans were killed, Black Africans were put through slavery, Jim Crow and imprisonment. The USA was literally built on an ancient Indian burial ground, because that’s what they’d turned it into. And that’s pretty much been the template ever since. “ Full text of Anna Chen’s speech, “A Short 21st Century Timeline of the Race to World War III,” HERE.
CHAT: THE POWER OF PROPAGANDA PART 1/3: Robbie Barwick, Anna Chen & Barrie V in conversation, November 2022
CHAT: THE POWER OF PROPAGANDA PART 2/3: Robbie Barwick, Anna Chen & Barrie V in conversation, November 2022
CHAT: In Conversation PART 3/3: Robbie Barwick, Anna Chen & Barrie V discuss The Power of Propaganda, November 2022
