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The Daily Aftershock (Writing Prompt)Synagogue Music by Michael HorovitzEditorial Note by Max WallisMichael Horovitz (1935–2021)Synagogue Music was one of Michael Horovitz’s most urgent and unflinching late poems; a lament and interrogation of inherited law, identity, and generational dissonance. The audio in this post is from a reading by his son Adam Horovitz live in Bermondsey in 2023, the poem now resonates with added force as both protest and elegy.With characteristic wordplay, rage, and compassion, Horovitz questions the rigidities of tradition and the burdens passed from father to son, elder to youth. Its final cry, in this extract from Michael’s long...2025-06-2501 min
The Daily Aftershock (Writing Prompt)A Scattered Set by Adam HorovitzEditorial Note by Max Wallis - exclusive to SubstackWhat do we inherit when a loved one dies? A silver spoon, a catchphrase, a question left unanswered. In A Scattered Set, Adam Horovitz offers a poignant triptych that spans memory, exile, intimacy, and the legacy of kinship, both personal and poetic. Written in memory of his father, the great poet Michael Horovitz, the triptych traces a physical and emotional lineage through a single, recurring object: the spoon.Beginning with Maker’s Mark, we are handed not just an heirloom, but a fragment of a refugee’s su...2025-06-2404 min