Celebrating John La Rose and 40 years of New Beacon Books
Southbank Centre, London SE1; a day of events celebrating publisher and cultural activist John La Rose, with Kamau Brathwaite, Linton Kwesi Johnson, Caryl Phillips, Ngugi wa Thiong and others.
'The most remarkable human being I have ever known' (Linton Kwesi Johnson in Guardian)
All day ticket to Celebrating John La Rose and 40 years of New Beacon Books: £16.50. For a full programme of events in this series visit www.southbankcentre.co.uk
Poetry Reading: Kamau Brathwaite
Saturday 3 February, 2.30pm
Purcell Room, South Bank Centre
In 1966 John La Rose, Kamau Brathwaite and Andrew Salkey co-founded the Caribbean Artists Movement in London. This groundbreaking association of writers and artists was publicly launched in March 1967 at a poetry reading by Kamau Brathwaite of Rights of Passage, which is now seen as a seminal poetic statement on the past and present of the Caribbean - its history, its values, its people. 40 years on, Brathwaite re-reads the long poem that awakened London to the beauty of the Caribbean word.
'Those who lament that the Age of Giants is over have evidently never read Kamau Brathwaite. His is not the poetry of one man in the world but of an entire world in one man' (Eliot Weinberger).
Purcell Room, 2.30pm
Tickets: £5.50
Ticket Office: 0871 663 2500
www.southbankcentre.co.uk
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