Michael Horovitz

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Michael Horovitz (born April 4, 1935 in Frankfurt am Main ; † July 7, 2021 ) was an English poet, performance artist , editor and translator . He was one of the earliest representatives of underground culture in London during the swinging sixties .

biography

Michael Horovitz was the youngest of 10 children in a rabbi family with German, Hungarian and Bohemian roots. Two years after his birth, the family fled to England.

Horovitz studied English at Brasenose College in Oxford from 1954 to 1960 . As a student, he founded New Departures , an avant-garde magazine in 1959 , in which he published, among others, William S. Burroughs , Samuel Beckett and Stevie Smith . Horovitz organized numerous “Live New Departures”, “Jazz Poetry SuperJams” and “Poetry Olympics” festivals. He was best known through the International Poetry Incarnation Festival in the Royal Albert Hall on June 11, 1965, where he performed with Allen Ginsberg and Alexander Trocchi , among others .

In 1969 his anthology Children of Albion was published . In 1971 he published The Wolverhampton Wanderer, an epic of Britannia, in twelve books, with a resurrection & a life for poetry united , a collection of texts by contemporary British authors with illustrations and photographs; Michal Tyzack, Peter Blake , Adrian Henri , Patrick Hughes, Gabi Nasemann, Michael Horovitz, Paul Kaplan, John Furnival, Bob Godfrey , Pete Morgan, Jeff Nuttall, David Hockney and many others were involved. Growing Up: Selected Poems and Pictures was released in 1979, 1951– '79 , and A New Waste Land: Timeship Earth at Nillennium in 2007 . In 2011 Horovitz took part in an e-book collection of political poems, which was published under the name Emergency Verse - Poetry in Defense of the Welfare State .

Michel Horovitz was married to the English poet Frances Horovitz (1938–1983). Their son Adam Horovitz (* 1971) is also a poet, performer and journalist.

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Jon Newey: Michael Horovitz OBE (04/04/1935 - 07/07/2021). In: Jazzwise . July 8, 2021, accessed July 8, 2021 .
  2. ↑ Michael Horovitz. In: Oxford Reference. Retrieved July 10, 2021 .
  3. ↑ Andrew Darlington: Michael Horovitz at the Inner Circle. In: Gargoyle Magazine # 7 April 9, 1977, accessed July 10, 2021 .
  4. ↑ Tim Willis: Portrait of the beatnik as an old poet. In: Evening Standard . June 15, 2010, archived from the original on July 22, 2010 ; accessed on July 10, 2021 .
personal data
SURNAME Horovitz, Michael
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British poet, performance artist, editor and translator
DATE OF BIRTH April 4, 1935
PLACE OF BIRTH Frankfurt am Main
DATE OF DEATH July 7, 2021