(With a bit of Bebop in the background) here’s a BBC Birthday radio celebration of Michael Horovitz: (Beat) poet, publisher, performer, initiator, rebel, maverick, experimentalist, nonconformist and all that jazz.
It’s a great but brief insight into his life and connection to the Beat era (the hitch-hiking, jazz fanatic druggies. Men of all time), and I love his musical inputs (particularly the Anglo Sax – it’s hilarious) and would at any time take a moment to listen to this neatly beat infected programme.

About Michael Horovitz:

His influence on publishing has been as significant as his impact on performance. In 1959 he launched New Departures, which first published works by Beckett, Burroughs, Ginsberg and others in the UK. The magazine grew into a famously anarchic and energetic touring show, Live New Departures, which brought poetry, music, visual art and performance to venues all over Britain during the counterculture explosion of the 1960s. He played a key part in the 1965 International Poetry Incarnation at the Albert Hall, and since 1980 he has organised a a number of Poetry Olympics events that have showcased, and continue to do so, inventive and inspiring collaborations between poets and musicians.

Listen to: The Poetry Olympian: Michael Horovitz at 75

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