Slow Migrations

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.

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The book began life as a commission, from the musician Chris Cundy, to write poems that went with his music for the Resonance FM radio show he produced, Archaeology of the Ear. Below are a couple of videos from the development stages, also featuring Chris’s music.

“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