Adam Horovitz is a poet, journalist and editor. He was born in 1971 in London and raised in Gloucestershire. He has written poetry since childhood but started to take it seriously in his early 20s, becoming involved in the performance poetry scene and appearing at various festivals, including Glastonbury and Cheltenham Literature Festival, and participating in the early Poetry Slam scene – he competed in the second slam in Britain, at Glastonbury, in 1994. He also took part in the inaugural Days of Poetry and Wine Festival in Slovenia in 1996.
His poetry has appeared in a number of magazines, including Acumen, Tears in the Fence, SAW, Tellus, Fourth World Review, Hand + Star and New Departures. He has also been published in a number of anthologies, including The Orange Dove of Fiji (Hutchinson, 1989), The Bristol Slam Anthology (Pimps of the Alphabet, 1997), Oral (Sceptre, 1999) and Asking a Shadow to Dance (Oxfam DVD, 2009). He has also been the poet in residence for Glastonbury Festival website in 2009 and Borkowski PR's website from 2005 to 2007.
Since 2000, he has concentrated more on the written word. His self-published first pamphlet, Next Year in Jerusalem, was released in 2004. His most recent pamphlet, The Great Unlearning, was published in 2009. His first full collection, Turning, is to be published by Headland in 2011.
Since poetry takes some considerable time to pay, he has supported himself with a number of jobs, including work for the Glastonbury Festival website, as arts editor for the Stroud News and Journal, ghostwriting, copy writing for a PR company, sheep dipping, bar work and more.
"Tactful and tactile, he has his own true voice, speaking his occasionally disturbing material with a light yet firm touch." Anthony Rudolf, The Jewish Quarterly.
http://adamhorovitz.co.uk
