Launch of To Sing Away the Darkest Days by Norbert

Contact: bernadette@hollandparkpress.co.uk

You’re invited to the launch of a fascinating poetry collection. It’s a great opportunity to meet the poet Norbert Hirschhorn, and hear him recite a few of his poems, in his own inimitable style, from To Sing Away the Darkest Days - Poems Re-imagined from Yiddish Folksongs.

While we listen to some of the original Yiddish folksongs, drinks and nibbles will be served. You will be able to purchase your own copy of the collection and get it signed by the author.

To Sing Away the Darkest Days is the culmination of a five-year project which saw Norbert Hirschhorn source more than one thousand Yiddish songs. The resulting collection tells the story of the emigrant, the Jew in the Diaspora, while drawing on the poet’s own experience.

Norbert Hirschhorn is a physician specializing in international public health, commended in 1993 by President Bill Clinton as an ‘American Health Hero’. His poems have been published in over three dozen journals and won a number of prizes in the US and UK. To Sing Away the Darkest Days is his fourth full collection.

More information is available from http://hollandparkpress.co.uk/book_detail.php?book_id=34

Entry: free

Time: 7:00pm