Poetry from Michael Horovitz at Waterstones | |||||
OPEN Ealing presents - Wednesday 18th April ‘Once described by Allen Ginsberg as a “popular, experienced, experimental, New Jerusalem, Jazz Generation, sensitive bard”. He performed alongside Ginsberg, Corso, and Ferlinghetti at the First International Poetry Incarnation which jam-packed the Royal Albert Hall in 1965’. Quote from Torchbearer website at http://poetryolympics.com/torchbearer: Poet, singer-songwriter, jazz and blues anglo-saxophonist … An early champion of oral and jazz poetry, whose flamboyant performances have energised every kind of audience on both sides of the Atlantic, Michael Horovitz has been variously described as: “an original poet, with an original voice” (Margaret Drabble); “a Cockney, Albionic, New Jerusalem, Jazz Generation, Sensitive Bard” (Allen Ginsberg); “a dreamer, a maverick … transmedial crusader” (Martin Amis).
Tickets £5 from OPEN Ealing (0208 579 5558) or from Waterstones in the Broadway Centre.
16th April 2012
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