Michael Horovitz is an English poet, artist and translator. He was the youngest of ten children who were brought to England from Nazi Germany by their parents. Michael has spent most of his adult life as a poet, songwriter-singer, jazz, blues & klezmer anglo-saxophonist, clown, impresario, visual artist, translator, literary journalist and editor-publisher.

Michael studied at Brasenose College, Oxford from 1954 to 1960. In 1959 he founded the New Departures publications while still a student, publishing William S. Burroughs, Samuel Beckett, and Stevie Smith. He has edited New Departures for fifty years, and coordinated many Live New Departures, Jazz Poetry SuperJams and Poetry Olympics festivals. Introducing him to New York in 1970, Allen Ginsberg characterized him as a “Popular, experienced, experimental, New Jerusalem, Jazz Generation, Sensitive Bard”.

In 1969 Penguin published his Children of Albion anthology, and in 1992 Grandchildren of Albion, his choice of forty younger poets, appeared. Michael’s latest book is A New Waste Land: Timeship Earth at Nillennium.

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