I am Rich and You are Poor: lines on dead Chinese cocklepickers and their rich benefactors

Posted on May 8, 2013 by Anna


Anna Chen reads her poem, “I am Rich and You are Poor: lines on dead Chinese cocklepickers and their rich benefactors” about the 21 people who died at Morecambe Bay in 2004.

Performed at the Morning Star May Day celebrations, 1st May 2013, London.

Videoed by Charles Shaar Murray.

Anna’s collection of poetry, REACHING FOR MY GNU, is available for KIndle and paperback at Amazon and as paperback from Aaaargh! Press.
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Anna reads Credit Crunch Suicide and Margaret Thatcher Died at the Ritz on May Day

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Margaret Thatcher Died at the Ritz: May Day poetry from Anna Chen

Posted on May 8, 2013 by Anna

Anna Chen’s first public reading of her poem “Margaret Thatcher Died at the Ritz”, written on the day news broke that the former prime minister had died … at the Ritz!
Thanks to Charles Shaar Murray for shooting the video.

Anna’s collection of poetry — REACHING FOR MY GNU — is available for Kindle and in paperback from Aaaargh! Press

Anna reads Credit Crunch Suicide on May Day

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Credit Crunch Suicide: May Day poetry

Posted on May 8, 2013 by Anna

Had a lovely gig last week at the Morning Star‘s May Day celebrations in Kilburn, London.

Also playing, singer songwriter Sean Taylor, a wonderful guitarist. Q Magazine called him, “A bluesey devotional intensity that rightly draws comparisons to John Martyn”. And they;’re right.

Khamis and J-Mac were our DJs for the night, while Attila the Stockbroker headlined with his angry punky poetry. Very funny.

I performed my poems. First video up — Credit Crunch Suicide — about our delightful bankers. Thanks to Charles Shaar Murray for camera duties.

Anna reads Margaret Thatcher Died at the Ritz and I am Rich and You are Poor on May Day 2013.

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Wilko Johnson says yes to Reaching for my Gnu

Posted on February 3, 2013 by Anna

I was, am and will continue to be thrilled by this encouragement from meister songwriter Wilko Johnson for my poetry. Here he is saying nice things about Reaching for my Gnu at his house last week.

So looking forward to his gigs in March — a farewell tour to beat all farewell tours. Bless you, Wilko. x

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2B or not 2B, that is the pencil: poem

Posted on December 22, 2012 by Anna

Here’s a short poem I wrote.

2B or not 2B

2B or not 2B
That is the pencil
Whether it is
Nobblier in the line to
Scuff the springs and marrows
Of outmoded pictorial representation,
Or to take snaps upon the digital?
To sketch up the dawn of a rosy hue
Or to take lines of sea and rubble
And by Photoshopping them, amend them?
To scumble the surface no more
But open a window on the world.
Depths and planes,
Impasto and light.
What The Fuck!

(written May 2009)

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Anna at Farrago Poetry: Poe, Daddy Freud, Travelogue, Detox St Ives

Posted on November 11, 2012 by Anna

Anna performs “Poe,” Daddy Freud,” Travelogue” and “Ode to a Detox” from her collection Reaching for my Gnu as a guest poet at the Farrago Poetry Slam, RADA Café in London, 9th November 2012

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