Michael Horovitz
Poet, editor and translator
Founder and editor of New Departures (1959 onwards) and the live Jazz Poetry SuperJams and Poetry Olympics festivals. Horovitz became known to British and international audiences through his anthology Children of Albion (1969). Later collections included Growing Up: Selected Poems and Pictures, 1951-'79 (1979) and Grandchildren of Albion (1992).
see it all without fearFrom ‘Blank O’Clock Blues’ in The Poetry Olympics Marathon Anthology (London: New Departures, 2001)
sing it out to each ear
All over London late for workFrom ‘A Little Kite Music’ in A New Waste Land (London: New Departures, 2007)
underslept worry-frayed faces
clench and sweat
Michael Horovitz
by Layle Silbert
bromide print, 26 February 1974
NPG x18589
© reserved; collection National Portrait Gallery, London
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