POET MICHAEL HOROVITZ JOINS JARVIS

Photograph courtesy of Peter Whitehead

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This week on the Sunday ServiceMichael Horovitz. Michael is a poet, singer-songwriter, jazz & blues anglo-saxophonist, impresario, visual artist, translator, arts journalist, editor-publisher, and neo-Beat trouble-shooter. He was characterised by Allen Ginsberg as a "Popular, experienced, experimental, New Jerusalem, Jazz Generation, Sensitive Bard". He founded New Departures publications and Live New Departures bandwagons (which first introduced the Beat writers to the UK) in 1959, Jazz Poetry SuperJams in 1963, and the Poetry Olympics festivals in 1980. Among his productions on stage and page which have featured the Beats are the POM! (Poetry Olympics Marathon) and POT! (Poetry Olympics Twenty05) Anthologies, and also his own Wordsounds & Sightlines and A New Waste Land.