For those of a similar name, see Michael Horowitz (disambiguation).
Michael W. Horovitz
OBE
Born
Michael Yechiel Ha-Levi Horovitz (1935-04-04)4 April 1935 Frankfurt am Main, Nazi Germany
Died
7 July 2021(2021-07-07) (aged 86) London, England
Occupation
Poet; Editor of New Departures; Artist
Notable works
Children of Albion (editor)
Spouse
Frances Horovitz
(m. 1964; div. 1980)
[1]
Children
Adam Horovitz
Michael W. HorovitzOBE (4 April 1935 – 7 July 2021) was a German-born British poet, editor, visual artist and translator who was a leading part of the Beat Poetry scene in the UK. In 1959, while still a student, he founded the "trail-blazing" literary periodical New Departures, publishing experimental poetry, including the work of William S. Burroughs, Allen Ginsberg and many other American and British beat poets.[2] Horovitz read his own work at the 1965 landmark International Poetry Incarnation, at the Royal Albert Hall in London, deemed to have spawned the British underground scene, when an audience of more than 6,000 came to hear readings by the likes of Ginsberg, Burroughs, Gregory Corso and Lawrence Ferlinghetti.[1]
Characterised as an early champion of oral and jazz poetry,[3] Horovitz in the following decades organised many "Live New Departures" events featuring poetry and jazz performances by a range of writers and musicians, including Adrian Mitchell and Stan Tracey.[4] Horovitz also devised the Poetry Olympics festival, held for the first time in Poets' Corner of Westminster Abbey in 1980, with participants over the years including Linton Kwesi Johnson, John Cooper Clarke, Paul McCartney, Eliza Carthy and Damon Albarn.[4][5]
^ ab"Michael Horovitz obituary". The Times. 10 July 2021.
^Newey, Jon (8 July 2021). "Michael Horovitz OBE (04/04/1935 – 07/07/2021)". Jazzwise.
^"Torchbearer | Introducing Michael Horovitz". Poetry Olympics. 25 October 2009. Retrieved 10 July 2021.
^ abWarner, Simon (10 July 2021). "Michael Horovitz obituary: A hero of British radical poetry". The New European. Archived from the original on 10 July 2021.
^Brown, Mick (29 September 2020). "Archive, 1980: first Poetry Olympics held in Westminster Abbey". The Guardian.
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