PENNED IN THE MARGINS presents MICHAEL HOROVITZ & MOAZZAM BEGG
Thursday 16 November, at the 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. www.pennedinthemargins.co.uk
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
Contact Tom Chivers on 020 7375 0258 or info@pennedinthemargins.co.uk for more information
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