PENNED IN THE MARGINS
contemporary poets in performance
presents
MICHAEL HOROVITZ & MOAZZAM BEGG
Thursday 16 November
Everyman Cinema Club
5 Holly Bush Vale, Hampstead NW3 6TX
Tickets £11 (£9 concs) Box office 0870 066 4777
Readings and Q&A 8.30 – 11pm
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MICHAEL HOROVITZ
The legendary beat poet, musician, artist and visionary returns to the place
of his upbringing. An early champion of oral and jazz poetry whom Ginsberg
called ‘a Cockney, Albionic, New Jerusalem, Jazz Generation, Sensitive
Bard’, Michael Horovitz has battled for almost half a century to promote
poetry, music and literature. Author of over thirty collections of poetry,
Horovitz will read from his latest offering A New Waste Land: Timeship Earth
at Nillennium, a verse and prose deconstruction of contemporary political,
moral and ecological degeneration.
‘a dreamer, a maverick … transmedial crusader’ Martin Amis
MOAZZAM BEGG
From February 2002 to January 2005 Birmingham-born Moazzam Begg was
imprisoned without charge or trial by the US government at Guantanemo Bay
detainment camp, Cuba. In this exclusive appearance, Begg will read his own
poems and extracts from Enemy Combatant, his shocking account of three years
spent in captivity.
‘The guards on both sides held me up for a few steps, and I noticed the
ground under my feet was very different from anything I'd seen in
Afghanistan. There were small light-brown sun-baked rocks, it seemed a lot
drier, hotter...and I could smell the sea. it was distinctly different to
the smell of the sea in Britain. But I could definitely smell the sea.’
Enemy Combatant
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