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In memory of Michael Horovitz
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ON JULY 7, yet another cultural comrade of mine left this Earth at the age of 86 — the pioneering performance poet and tireless, almost evangelical promoter of all things poetic, jazzy, artistic and sometimes just downright batshit weird, Michael Horovitz.
He started performing and organising poetry events in the 1950s and was one of the prime movers behind the groundbreaking and rumbustious, by poetic standards of the time, legendary Royal Albert Hall beat poetry “happening” of 1966.
“Misbehaving” beat poets somehow got poetry banned from the RAH for the next 18 years. God knows how long the ban would have been if we punk poets had been there.
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