Poetry Olympics

Thursday 3 October from 7.30 till late
National Poetry Day Jazz Poetry SuperJam Live 2013
Alumni booked so far include Annie Whitehead’s massed World Music Workshop bands, the William Blake Klezmatrix band, jazz maestros Bobby Wellins, Jennifer Maidman, Pete Lemer, plus performance poetry specialists John Hegley & Adam Horovitz, and singer-songsmith Vanessa Vie & myself, among diverse others tbc – keep this date, unless you are sane.
100 Club, 100 Oxford St, W1

20 June to 22 September
‘Self-Portrait with Muse (pre-feminist, pre-smokeless)’ on show
See / buy Michael Horovitz’s Pen & Indian ink drawing.
King’s Place Gallery, 90 York Way, London N1 9AG

10 June to 18 August
‘Shelley – The Sensitive Plant’ on show at the Royal Academy
See / buy Michael Horovitz’s oil painting.
Royal Academy of Arts, Burlington House, Piccadilly, London W1J 0BD

2013 releases
Gearbox Records releases All Star Jazz Poetry SuperJams
Three recordings titled ‘Jazz Poetry SuperJam’:
#1: Blues For The Hitchhiking Dead
#2: Ballade Of The Nocturnal Commune / Extra Time Meltdown
#3: Bankbusted Nuclear Detergent Blues

Appeal
Poetry Olympics needs storage space!
Torchbearer Michael Horovitz is urgently seeking affordably rented storage/studio space in/within a few miles of Notting Hill Gate, Bayswater and Ladbroke Grove areas. Even poetry, art and music productions are on offer as part payment. If you know of available space, please send details from the Contact page.

January 2011
Inge Elsa Laird: obituary
By Michael Horovitz

Picture-Poems and other Artworks 1963-2008 by Michael Horovitz
Art@42, 42 Pembridge Road, Notting Hill Gate, London W11 3HN