Michael C. Burgess (editor)
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Michael C. Burgess is a British poet, activist and former editor of The Star-News. He helped assemble the Non-Stop Picket of the South Africa House with the demand that Nelson Mandela be set free. Burgess is believed to be a descendant of Lord Byron.
Personal life
Burgess was born to Geoffrey Burgess, an Oxford Times freelance writer. He and his father became the topic of an article for The Daily Telegraph after Christina Hardyment read Byron's Children by Susan Normington. The Burgesses are presumed to be direct descendants of Lord Byron.[1]
In the 1980s, Burgess aided the The Non-Stop Picket of the South Africa House that called for Nelson Mandela's release from prison.[1] He described how the Picket became part of his daily routine and that he noticed early picketers lost their motivation and gave up.[2]
Career
Burgess was elected co-treasurer for OutRage! when it became a not-for-profit organization.[3] His verse Blue Rhapsody was published in Once I Was a Washing Machine.[4] He talked about how difficult it is waiting for literature to be published for those that do not take up writing at a young age.[5] Another verse, The Victims, was published in The Cream of the Troubadour Poets by David Stuart Ryan.[6]
Burgess was Editor of The Star-News in 2004. In September, he gathered lawsuit information from City Council candidate Steve Castaneda who wanted legal action on his opponent, Dan Hom. After Burgess received hard copies of liens and court cases, his publisher told him to kill the story.[7] The next day, Burgess was removed from his duties as Editor.[8]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Hardyment, Christina (1995-06-29). "Byron's lost family: a poetic mystery". The Daily Telegraph. p. 13. Retrieved 2023-08-26 – via Newspapers.com.
- ↑ Brown, Gavin; Yaffe, Helen (2017-10-16). Youth Activism and Solidarity: The non-stop picket against Apartheid (1st ed.). Taylor & Francis. ISBN 9781138828865 – via Google Books.
- ↑ Lucas, Ian (1998). OutRage!: An Oral History. London: Cassell & Co. p. 22. ISBN 9780304333578 – via Google Books.
- ↑ Once I was a Washing Machine. Federation of Worker Writers and Community Publishers. 1989. p. 14. ISBN 0-906411-02-5.
- ↑ 'Once I was a Washing Machine'. London: Fight Racism! Fight Imperialism!. 1989. p. 14. ISSN 0143-5426 – via Internet Archive.
- ↑ Ryan, David Stuart (1990-06-30). The Cream of the Troubadour Poets. Kozmik Press Centre. ISBN 0-905116-194.
- ↑ Oakes, Amy (2004-09-22). "Financial dealings spotlighted in race". The San Diego Union Tribune. p. B-10:1. Retrieved 2023-08-26 – via ProQuest.
- ↑ "SOUTH COUNTY OPINION | LETTERS". The San Diego Union Tribune (6th ed.). 2004-09-30. p. B-13. Retrieved 2023-08-26 – via ProQuest.
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