Thursday 20th September
Michael Horovitz - The New Waste Land
Renowned poet, song-writer, jazz and blues anglo-saxophonist Michael Horovitz reads from his most political work to date, an adaptation and extension of the structure, music and apocalyptic collage of T S Eliot's The Waste Land of 1922. Among the soulless forces of darkness deconstructed in the poem are Tony Blair's degradation of the Labour Party; the mega-materialisms of Margaret Thatcher and Rupert Murdoch; the macho duplicities of Bull Clinton and Gorge Dubbya Bash; Hypeing Up, Dumbing Down and the "EnterPrize Culture"; the hubristic vacuities of the Greenwich Dome saga; and the suicidal commercial triumphalism promoted by the arms, nuclear, advertising and war industries.'Cockney, Albionic, New Jerusalem, Jazz Generation, Sensitive, Bard' - Allen Ginsberg
'a dreamer, a maverick ... transmedial crusader' - Martin Amis
Venue: Broadway Bookshop, 6 Broadway Market, E8 4QJ
Admission: £3 / £2 concessions - including a glass of wine.
Booking: 020 7241 1626 / books@broadwaybookshophackney.com
Time: 6.30-8pm
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www.broadwaybookshophackney.com for more information or contact info@writetoignite.co.uk
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