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Anna Chen – First published 11 July 2025 , Anna May Wong and containing China Anna May Wong and China facing the same western fears An...

Anna Chen's poetry and politics at TikTok Culture and politics converge in Anna Chen’s video surge I’m delighted to announce I’m add...

Anna's new website Poetry page: ANNA CHEN A poem fit for a king. Eating Placenta — Lines on the Royal Birth Anna Chen reads Eating P...

Anna's new website: ANNA CHEN Hannah Lowe's new collection of poetry, Old Friends Published by Hercules Editions, May 2022 ...

A poem for Grenfell Tower by Anna Chen marking a month since the disaster Today marks a whole month since the devastating fire at Grenfell...

Review of Lucy Chau Lai-Tuen's poetry collection: glimpses of perpetual marginalisation A moving, fairly disturbing, collection of...

Five stars for Heathcote Williams' American Porn poetry collection: balancing passion and disgust on a razor's edge Seems like we...

It's hard to believe that Cressida Dick, the woman at the head of the London Metropolitan Police operation that killed Jean Charles de...

I Am Rich and You Are Poor: lines on dead Chinese workers and their rich benefactors by Anna Chen In support of today's One Day Without...

No slouching towards Westminster by JC. Here's my poem about the current welcome rush to the heart and head. I guess that makes me a ...

I was a guest on the BBC World Service Weekend programme on Saturday, talking about the news: the Middle East, The Catholic Synod, Ebola an...

A reminder about Liverpool tomorrow. I'm looking forward to giving my China Diaspora in Britain talk plus a poetry reading from Reachin...

Anna Chen gives her Chinese Diaspora in Britain talk and reads poetry at the International Festival of Business China Day launching '...

Political poetry in London — Anna Chen at Campaign Against Climate Change Looking forward to performing poetry at the Campaign Against Cli...

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...

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 Stree...

The world is going insane , the Tory narrative has set like concrete, the far left has lost its marbles along with its principles and judgem...

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...

Some of the lovely students from the afternoon session of my Poetry Against the Cuts class at the Wigan Pier Workshops, presented by the ...

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. ...