93 year old poet Emanuel Litvinoff recounts the incident in 1951 when he read his poem "To TS Eliot" challenging Eliot on the republication of antisemitic lines of poetry after the Holocaust. It was the inaugural poetry platform of the Institute of Contemporary Arts in London. Litvinoff's poem included the lines "I am not one accepted in your Parish; Bleistein is my relative and I share the protozoic slime of Shylock".
Interviewer: Paul Laity for the Guardian.
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Litvinoff's memoirs of growing up in the Jewish East End of London, "Journey Through A Small Planet", out now in Penguin Classics
http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/0141189304
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