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Review of Ginsberg reading by D.A.Callard, New Manchester Review. Allen Ginsberg & Anne Waldman reading at Library Theatre Tuesday 5th June 1979. Also reading was Peter Orlovsky and Steven Taylor on guitar. Taylor is from Gorton, Manchester. His family emigrated to the USA when he was 10. He was Ginsberg's guitarist and musical advisor for 21 years. Taylor joined US punk band False Prophets and played The Swinging Sporran, Manchester, with them May 1989. Article also references a trip to Wordsworth's cottage and grave in the Lakes, the day after the reading.
D.A. 'Arthur' Callard was a writer from Hebden Bridge.
Photos of Ginsberg at the Tibetan Buddhist Centre on Reynard Road, Chorlton, are by Kevin Cummins.
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