Adam Horovitz

Slow Horizons

‘Slow Migrations' is an exploration of the West of England before it was English, seen through the lenses of Corinium Museum’s Neolithic gallery and the Roman baths at Bath. The poems tread migratory Neolithic pathways that became Roman roads, splash through ancient waters and myths and delve into the tombs, temples, tools and transitions of cultures that make up the bones of a modern society built on the migrations of people, money and even stone..

ISBN 978-1-912876-94-5

Paperback

62 pages

£10.00

THE AUTHOR

 Adam Horovitz is a poet and performer based in Stroud, Gloucestershire. He has released three books of poetry (Turning, The Soil Never Sleeps and Love & Other Fairy Tales), several pamphlets and a memoir about growing up in ‘Cider with Rosie’ country, A Thousand Laurie Lees. One of his poems was included on Cerys Matthews’ album We Come From the Sun (Decca, 2021). He has most recently collaborated with musician Chris Cundy on the Archaeology of the Ear series for Resonance FM.

About previous collections...

“…Horovitz has a natural syntactical elegance, so he’s easy on the ear; these are poems that read aloud as though they were born to do just that.”

~ R.V. Bailey

“Tactful and tactile, he has his own true voice, speaking his occasionally disturbing material with a light yet firm touch.”

~ Anthony Rudolf

“Horovitz writes with great delicacy about relationships and the natural world, sometimes baldly countered with an almost gothic sense of unresolved psychic violence.”

~ Martyn Crucefix

“…a fine poet, capable of producing delightful verbal music…”

~ Billy Mills

About 'Slow Horizons'...

“The connections Adam Horovitz builds here are slow indeed, and strong; deep-rooted links made in English soil long before it was English. In a country of longhouses, stone blades and goddesses, Horovitz reaches for his ancestors to grasp the long relationships between human and place, dog and human, water and land, natural and supernatural – and to find, above all, the strong claim of one's own hinterland in shaping the present-day poet.”

~ Jo Bell

Publication date: 20th June 2025