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Michael Horovitz (Michael Yechiel Ha-Levi Horovitz) was born on 4 April, 1935 in Frankfurt am Main, Nazi Germany, is an English poet, artist, and translator (1935–2021). Discover Michael Horovitz's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 86 years old?

Popular As Michael Yechiel Ha-Levi Horovitz
Occupation Poet; Editor of New Departures
Age 86 years old
Zodiac Sign Aries
Born 4 April 1935
Birthday 4 April
Birthplace Frankfurt am Main, Nazi Germany
Date of death 7 July, 2021
Died Place London, England
Nationality Germany

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1935

Michael Yechiel Ha-Levi Horovitz (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.

Horovitz was born in 1935 in Frankfurt, then in Nazi Germany.

1937

He was the youngest of ten children who were brought to Britain in 1937 by their Jewish parents, Rosi (née Feist) and Dr Avraham Horovitz, both of whom were part of a network of European rabbinical families, and from London Dr Horovitz helped organise routes for other Jewish families to flee the Holocaust.

1938

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

Michael Horovitz's home was in Notting Hill, London.

In his later years, it became a notoriously chaotic repository of his personal papers and archives.

1951

Horovitz's Growing Up: Selected Poems and Pictures, 1951–79 was published by Allison & Busby in 1979.

1954

Michael Horovitz attended William Ellis School in north London, and went on to read English at Brasenose College, Oxford, from 1954 to 1960.

1959

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.

In 1959, while still a student, he founded the periodical New Departures, publishing authors such as William S. Burroughs, Samuel Beckett, and Stevie Smith.

Horovitz continued to edit New Departures for 50 years.

He coordinated many poetry events such as "Live New Departures", Jazz Poetry Super Jams and the Poetry Olympics festivals.

1960

It is a visual and literary elegy to the culture surrounding association football up to the 1960s, celebrating not only Wolves and its supporters, but also Arsenal, Spurs, and teams from the North.

1965

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.

Characterised as an early champion of oral and jazz poetry, 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.

Though initially associated with the British Poetry Revival, Horovitz became known by his appearance at the International Poetry Incarnation at the Royal Albert Hall on 11 June 1965, alongside Allen Ginsberg and Alexander Trocchi.

1969

In 1969, Penguin Books published Horovitz's Children of Albion anthology.

1970

Introducing him to New York City in 1970, Ginsberg characterised him as a "Popular, experienced, experimental, New Jerusalem, Jazz Generation, Sensitive Bard".

1971

In 1971, Horovitz published The Wolverhampton Wanderer, an epic of Britannia, in twelve books, with a resurrection & a life for poetry united, with an original dustjacket by Peter Blake.

The book is a collection of British artists of the period, with illustrations and photographs by Peter Blake, Michael Tyzack, Adrian Henri, Patrick Hughes, Gabi Nasemann, Paul Kaplan, John Furnival, Bob Godfrey, Pete Morgan, Jeff Nuttall, David Hockney, as well as Horovitz and others.

1980

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.

2007

In 2007, Horovitz published A New Waste Land: Timeship Earth at Nillennium, described by D. J. Taylor in The Independent as "a deeply felt clarion-call from the radical underground", and by Tom Stoppard as "A true scrapbook and songbook of the grave new world".

2010

Horovitz stood for election as Oxford Professor of Poetry in 2010 (supported by Tony Benn).

Contributing to The Guardian, Horovitz wrote then:

"I would most likely pitch some of my lectures around the legacies of my closest comrades in the broad continuum of poetry, from David and Solomon to James Joyce, Sappho to Bessie Smith, Beowulf to Lead Belly, medieval troubadours to the beat generation, Keats to Bob Dylan and Blake to Beckett."

In the same article he emphasised the connections between art media, stage and page poetry, and his wish to extend "communal paths my bardmobile has struck over the last five decades."

In the event.

Horovitz came second, in a field of 11, to Geoffrey Hill.

"Indoor skip it may seem to you, but compared to Francis Bacon's studio, my pad here is Versailles", he said in a 2010 Evening Standard interview.

Horovitz was a loyal supporter of Arsenal Football Club.

Horovitz died at St Mary's Hospital, Paddington, on 7 July 2021, at the age of 86.

He was also recognised for his artwork and at the time of his death a two-week exhibition of his "Bop Art paintings, collages and picture poems" was opening at the Chelsea Arts Club (6–25 July).

2011

In January 2011, Horovitz contributed to an eBook collection of political poems entitled Emergency Verse – Poetry in Defence of the Welfare State, edited by Alan Morrison.

2013

To celebrate Horovitz's 80th birthday, a limited-edition album was produced of a 2013 recording of his poem sequence "Bankbusted Nuclear Detergent Blues", on which he is accompanied by Paul Weller, Graham Coxon and Damon Albarn.

2019

An eccentric and colourful part of the UK poetry scene, Horovitz fronted the William Blake Klezmatrix band (his hero being the 19th-century poet and painter William Blake) in which he played the "anglo-saxophone", an updated and extended eunuch flute of his own devising.