ADAM HOROVITZ PROFILE

Adam Horovitz is a poet, journalist and editor. He was born in 1971 in London and raised in Gloucestershire. He has appeared at various festivals, including Glastonbury and Cheltenham Literature Festival. 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, New Departures and Salt Publishing's online revival of Horizon. He has also been published in a number of anthologies, including The Orange Dove of Fiji(Hutchinson, 1989), Oral (Sceptre, 1999), Asking a Shadow to Dance (Oxfam DVD, 2009) and The Listening Shell (Headland, 2010). He was the poet in residence for Glastonbury Festival website in 2009 and Borkowski PR’s website from 2005 to 2007. In 2010, he was voted onto the Hospital Club 100 list, in association with the Independent newspaper, as an emerging name in the Publishing & Writing section. 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 of poems, Turning, is to be published by Headland in 2011. He is co-editor, with Kate Noakes, of Ellipsis poetry magazine.