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In memory of Michael Horovitz
A unique poet, cultural organiser, editor, visual artist, translator and mentor
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The bard confirms that the right has a humour bypass, and replays the English Revolution on period instruments
MARIA DUARTE and ANDY HEDGECOCK review Sunny Dancer, Tony, Songs of Forgotten Trees, and The End of Oak Street
JOHN GREEN relishes a powerful and moving drama that explores the lived realities of west London’s Punjabi community
MARTIN HALL welcomes a plea for greater compassion between believer and non-believer via the framework of philosophical enquiry
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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