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In memory of Michael Horovitz
A unique poet, cultural organiser, editor, visual artist, translator and mentor
JAMES CROSSLEY applauds a lucid biography of the German radical preacher who reemerged as a hero in the GDR
Prizes all round: the Bard hands plaudits to the Miners Gala, OT&JC, Joe Solo, Black Sabbath’s frontman and the Lionesses
Star cartoonist JAMIE BRITTON is in awe of a graphic novel of epic proportions that explores class, religion and globalisation via the strange cultivation of Ginseng in the US Midwest
GUILLERMO THOMAS is intrigued by a history of the Middle East that demonstrates how promising post colonial beginnings were snuffed out by Western imperialist interests
MARIA DUARTE recommends the intricate study of a high-performance and highly dysfuntional German family
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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