Wednesday, 21. February 2007
Topic: ART - on February 21, 2007 at 6:20:00 PM CET
It's like San Francisco - with greyer weather
Is Liverpool really the centre of the creative universe?
When the US beat poet and counter-cultural icon Allen Ginsberg arrived in Liverpool in May 1965, he declared the city to be "at the present moment, the centre of consciousness of the human universe". Perhaps his pronouncement shouldn't be taken too seriously: he made similar claims for Milwaukee and Baltimore. As Liverpool poet Brian Patten, whose floor Ginsberg slept on, says: "I think Allen believed the centre of human consciousness to be wherever he was at the time."
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