In two intimate performances, Ginsberg’s Howl will be read by Clarke alongside Archer’s Drunken Taxicabs of Absolute Reality: Howl to Music, performed by a seven-piece jazz band. The performance will create a sonic landscape that accompanies and interacts with Ginsberg’s seminal poem, intertwining in real time.
Hallucinatory, chaotic and confronting, Allen Ginsberg’s 1955 poem Howl sits with On the Road by Jack Kerouac and Naked Lunch by William S. Burroughs at the very centre of the Beat generation’s literary canon – both revered and despised for its visceral depictions of sex, drugs and madness.
The performance comes as part of The Wheeler Centre’s Season Three Programme.
