Horovitz

FRANCES HOROVITZ (1938 - 1983)

The teacher, broadcaster, actress and poet was a friend of Kathleen Raine (q.v.) and Winifred Nicholson. She spent two winters at a farmhouse at Kiln Hill, near Birdoswald Fort on the Roman Wall (1980-82). Wall, on which she worked with Roger Garfitt, is a product of this period, as is Snow Light, Water Light (1983). The latter contains many moving and delicately precise lyrics, often compared to Oriental landscape poetry. Among these poems are 'Rain - Birdoswald', 'Vindolanda' and others referring to Chesters Fort and the Mithraic Temple at Carrawburgh.

Near Birdoswald is Camboglanna (the Crooked Glen), reputed site of Camlann, King Arthur's last battle. Horovitz's poem 'The Crooked Glen' alludes to this.

Myers Literary Guide:	The North-East
FRANCES HOROVITZ (1938 - 1983) The teacher, broadcaster, actress and poet was a friend of Kathleen Raine (q.v.) and Winifred Nicholson. She spent two winters at a farmhouse at Kiln Hill, near Birdoswald Fort on the Roman Wall (1980-82). Wall, on which she worked with Roger Garfitt, is a product of this period, as is Snow Light, Water Light (1983). The latter contains many moving and delicately precise lyrics, often compared to Oriental landscape poetry. Among these poems are 'Rain - Birdoswald', 'Vindolanda' and others referring to Chesters Fort and the Mithraic Temple at Carrawburgh. Near Birdoswald is Camboglanna (the Crooked Glen), reputed site of Camlann, King Arthur's last battle. Horovitz's poem 'The Crooked Glen' alludes to this.
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