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A Poetry Reading By Jayne Cortez

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Wed 30 Mar 2011, 5:30pm

Free Word Lecture Theatre

Introduced by Lawrence Scott

The George Padmore Institute and the Free Word Centre are delighted to host internationally acclaimed poet and activist Jayne Cortez at her only London event in 2011. Introduced by the prizewinning writer Lawrence Scott, Jayne Cortez will read from a selection of her poetry which spans over four decades, and which tells of the struggle for black social liberation and for radical political and social change in the USA and beyond. Cortez’s uncompromising poems are also fiercely free form with jazz inflections that take the audience on an unparalled journey of music and words.