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Michael Horovitz

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Michael Horovitz is a British poet and musician

July 2017

  • Heathcote Williams in 1995.

    Letter: Heathcote Williams obituary

    While Heathcote Williams was indeed primarily committed to the written word, he was equally and superlatively concerned with both the performed, and even the painted word

September 2015

  • Lee Harwood

    Letter: Lee Harwood’s telling sense of humour

    Michael Horovitz writes: Lee Harwood and I once shared a lively poetry reading with Jeff Nuttall

June 2015

  • Michael Horovitz with Ornette Coleman

    Letter: A free-flying evening in Croydon with Ornette Coleman

    Michael Horovitz writes: An evening with Ornette Coleman, his first European performance, was presented by Live New Departures in Fairfield Hall, Croydon, in 1965

February 2015

  • John Bayley at his home in Oxford.

    Letter: Michael Horovitz on John Bayley’s literary symposiums at Oxford

    Michael Horovitz writes: One detail in Valentine Cunningham’s revealing obituary of John Bayley diverges from my own observation of the academic and writer, regarding his periodic bursts of apparently uncontrollable stuttering

November 2013

  • Anthony Caro in 1991

    Letter: Anthony Caro and the meaning of sculpture

    Michael Horovitz writes: Sir Anthony Caro preferred to let his work speak for itself

May 2010

  • double quotation markOut of the poetic mire

    Michael Horovitz

    Michael Horovitz: Pompous? Not my bag. Don't let misinformation pollute another race for the Oxford professorship