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For the American writer and father of Winona Ryder, see Michael Horowitz. For the U.S. sociologist, see Michael G. Horowitz.

Michael Horovitz (born 1935) is an English poet, artist and translator, educated at Brasenose College, Oxford.

Though initially associated with the British Poetry Revival, Horovitz became widely known on his appearance at the International Poetry Incarnation at the Royal Albert Hall on June 11 1965, alongside Allen Ginsberg and Alexander Trocchi. In 1959 he founded the New Departures magazine while still a student, publishing William S. Burroughs and Samuel Beckett.

In 1969 he edited Poetry of the Underground in Britain for Penguin Books. And one of his most famous poems - 'Sea's Cape' bought him to fame.

In 1971 he published the lavish 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 quintessentially English collection of British artists of the period with illustrations and photographs by Michal Tyzack, Peter Blake, Adrian Henri, P.G. Findlay & R. Elson, Patrick Hughes, Gabi Nasemann, Michael Horovitz, Paul Kaplan, John Furnival, Bob Godfrey, Pete Morgan, Jeff Nuttall, David Hockney and others. 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 legendary teams from the North.

Growing Up: Selected Poems and Pictures, 1951-'79 was published by Allison & Busby in 1979. He has run the Poetry Olympics at numerous venues including the Albert Hall and Westminster Abbey since 1980 and elsewhere the world over, and recently published A New Waste Land.

Horovitz is, alongside Christopher Logue, Tom Pickard and Joyce Johnson, one of the last living links to the Beat poets and their milieu.

He was married to the English poet Frances Horovitz (1938-83); their son Adam (b. 1971) is also a poet.

Horovitz recently curated an event at the Portobello Film Festival 2009 entitled 'The Beat Goes On', the first of a two-part event. The second was curated by Lee Harris & River Styx .

In August 2010 Horovitz contributed to an eBook collection of political poems entitled Emergency Verse - Poetry in Defence of the Welfare State edited by Alan Morrison

Horovitz stood for election for the Oxford Professor of Poetry in 2010, but lost to Geoffrey Hill.

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