PIONEERING poet Michael Horovitz - who helped liberate the post war poetry scene from its academic confines and steer its passage in a more anarchic and inclusive direction - has died, aged 86. He founded New Departures poetry publishing in 1959, brought Allen Ginsberg to Stroud in 1979, and launched the Poetry Olympics in 1980. Michael moved to Stroud with his wife Frances and son Adam - who are both now acclaimed poets in their own right - in 1971 and has had a presence here ever since. Born in 1935, Michael was the youngest of ten in a Jewish family based in Frankfurt, Germany, who all managed to escape to Britain before the Second World War ignited.
DID you know all these famous faces had connections to Salisbury and Wiltshire? If the county had its own wall of fame, these television, film and novelists would definitely top the list:
1 - Mark Labbett Many of us know him as The Beast on the ITV game show The Chase, but some may not realise he attended Bishop Wordsworth s School in Salisbury. Born in Tiverton, Devon, Mark went to Wordsworth s from 1976 to 1983. After bagging 10 GCSEs and five A-Levels, Mark studied maths at Oxford, law in Glamorgan and became a maths teacher - a job he did in South Wales for 20 years.
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