Adam Horovitz |
ABOUT THE ARTIST Adam Horovitz was born in London in 1971, and moved to Slad, Gloucestershire the same year.
Active as a poet and performer since the early 1990s, he released his first pamphlet, Next Year in Jerusalem, in 2004 and a second, The Great Unlearning, in 2009.
He was the poet in residence for Glastonbury Festival’s official website in 2009 and was voted onto the Hospital Club 100 in 2010 as an ‘emerging talent’. His debut collection, Turning, was released by Headland in 2011.
He was awarded a Hawthornden Fellowship in 2012 and his most recent book, A Thousand Laurie Lees (a poetry-fuelled memoir about growing up in Cider with Rosie country), was published by the History Press in 2014.
He was a judge for the 2014 Manchester Poetry Prize and the 2014 Bare Fiction poetry competition.
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