Michael Horovitz

Michael Horovitz ( born April 4, 1935 in Frankfurt am Main ) is an English poet, performance artist, editor and translator. He was one of the earliest representatives of the underground culture in London in the Swinging Sixties.

Biography

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

Horovitz studied 1954-1960 English at Brasenose College, Oxford. While still a student he founded 1959 New Departures, an avant-garde magazine in which he published, among others, William S. Burroughs, Samuel Beckett and Stevie Smith. Horovitz has organized numerous "Live New Departures", "Jazz Poetry SuperJams " and "Poetry Olympics " festival. He was known primarily for the Festival International Poetry Incarnation at the Royal Albert Hall on June 11, 1965, where he performed, among others, Allen Ginsberg and Alexander Trocchi.

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

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