Adam Horovitz (poet) explained

Adam Horovitz (born 1971) is a British poet. He is the son of the poets Michael Horovitz and Frances Horovitz.[1]

Biography

Born in London in 1971, he moved with his parents to Stroud, Gloucestershire, the same year.[2] He has been active as a poet since the 1990s[3] but has been writing since childhood.[4] He released his first pamphlet, Next Year in Jerusalem, in 2004[5] and a second, The Great Unlearning,[6] in 2009.

He was the poet in residence for Glastonbury Festival's official website in 2009[7] and was voted onto the Hospital Club 100[8] in 2010 as an emerging talent.[9] He was the poet in residence for the county of Herefordshire between 2015 and 2016 [10] and for the Pasture-fed Livestock Association from 2016 to 2017.[11]

His debut collection, Turning, was released by Headland in 2011.[12] He was awarded a Hawthornden Fellowship in 2012.[13] His second book, released by the History Press in June 2014 to coincide with the Laurie Lee centenary celebrations, was A Thousand Laurie Lees, which draws on memoir, myth and literature inspired by Cider with Rosie country.[14]

In 2015 he released an album of poetry and music, Little Metropolis, written in collaboration with Josef Reeve. It was originally commissioned as a show for the 2015 Stroud Fringe Festival.[15] Little Metropolis was shortlisted for the 2016 Saboteur Awards.[16] In 2018, his book The Soil Never Sleeps was published by Palewell Press, after a year-long residency on four Pasture-fed Livestock Association farms. A second, extended edition of the book was released in 2019, including a new section written after spending two seasons on two Exmoor farms.[17] In April 2020, he launched The Thunder Mutters, a poetry and music podcast celebrating the work of John Clare, with fiddle player Becky Dellow, with whom he has collaborated on shows since 2014.[18]

In 2021, a poem of his was included on the Cerys Matthews and Hidden Orchestra album We Come From the Sun, released on Decca, alongside nine other poets including Lemn Sissay, Imtiaz Dharker and Liz Berry.[19] Horovitz's third collection of poetry, Love and Other Fairy Tales, was published in late 2021 by Indigo Dreams.[20]

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Notes and References

  1. Web site: The Times | UK News, World News and Opinion . Entertainment.timesonline.co.uk . 8 November 2011 . 12 November 2011.
  2. Web site: About . Adamhorovitz.co.uk . 12 November 2011.
  3. Web site: Sam . Taylor . Son gives rhyme and reason for poet's achievements – News . https://web.archive.org/web/20121111194851/http://www.independent.co.uk/news/son-gives-rhyme-and-reason-for-poets-achievements-1235941.html . 2012-11-11 . limited . live . The Independent . UK . 15 October 1997 . 12 November 2011.
  4. Web site: Between The Covers: 29/05/2011 – Features – Books . https://web.archive.org/web/20110530235107/http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/books/features/between-the-covers-29052011-2290353.html . 2011-05-30 . limited . live . The Independent . UK . 29 May 2011 . 12 November 2011.
  5. Web site: The Jewish Quarterly . The Jewish Quarterly . 16 March 2009 . 12 November 2011.
  6. Web site: Tom . Chivers . Hand + Star . Handandstar.co.uk . 22 July 2010 . 12 November 2011.
  7. Web site: News – 2009 Website Poet in Residence . Glastonbury Festivals . 12 November 2011.
  8. Web site: THC100 . Thehospitalclub.com . 12 November 2011 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20111206071104/http://www.thehospitalclub.com/100/nominees.php?c=6 . 6 December 2011 .
  9. Web site: Burrell . Ian . Introducing the rising stars of UK's creative industries – TV & Radio – Media . https://web.archive.org/web/20100708195343/http://www.independent.co.uk/news/media/tv-radio/introducing-the-rising-stars-of-uks-creative-industries-2020058.html . 2010-07-08 . limited . live . The Independent . UK . 7 July 2010 . 12 November 2011.
  10. Web site: Rare joining of place, poetry and people . herefordtimes.com. Philippa. May. 20 June 2015.
  11. Web site: What can Michael Gove - and the rest of us - learn from a new poetry of the soil? . Adam. Horovitz. 19 January 2018. opendemocracy.net.
  12. Book: Turning: Amazon.co.uk: Adam Horovitz: Books . .
  13. Web site: Adam Horovitz . rethinkyourmind.co.uk . 2014 . 16 June 2014.
  14. Book: A Thousand Laurie Lees: The Centenary Celebration of a Man and a Valley . 2014 . .
  15. Web site: Little Metropolis by Adam Horovitz & Josef Reeve . sabotagereviews.com . David. Clarke . 23 February 2016.
  16. Web site: Spotlight on the Best Collaborative Work Shortlist . sabotagereviews.com . 12 May 2016.
  17. Web site: The Soil Never Sleeps: Stroud poet Adam Horovitz releases new edition . Matty. Airey. stroudnewsandjournal.co.uk . 25 August 2019.
  18. Web site: New poetry podcast from Adam Horovitz and Becky Dellow . stroudnewsandjournal.co.uk . 21 April 2020.
  19. Web site: Cerys Matthews, Hidden Orchestra and 10 Poets: We Are from the Sun review – works a treat. Neil. Spencer. The Observer . 2021.
  20. Web site: Matty . Airey . Stroud Poet Adam Horovitz explores love, and other fairy tales . The Stroud News and Journal . UK . 21 October 2021.
  21. Web site: New poetry pamphlet by Adam Horovitz . Matty. Airey. stroudnewsandjournal.co.uk . 26 November 2014.
  22. Book: The Physic Garden: Poems inspired by healing plants . 2017. .

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