Street Music at Housmans Bookshop – December 2012

Audio recording of Mike Marqusee reading poems from Street Music at Housmans Bookshop, 12 December 2012. With questions and comments on topics poetical and political.

Welcome and introduction

Multiple Myeloma

Street Music

Object Lesson / Egypt / It should not be difficult

Do not believe that we grow

This morning’s surprise

Naming the book and poets

Poetic links with Bob Dylan and others

It’s hard to talk about cancer

The state of journalism

Unhelpful metaphors