STROUD wordsmith Adam Horovitz has been announced as Herefordshire’s new poet in residence.

The second poet ever to have held the post, Adam is set to launch his residency by running a free poetry workshop at Ledbury Library on  June 4, from 12 noon – 2pm

Adam said: “I’m excited to be returning to Herefordshire as poet in residence. I lived there for two years between the ages of 11 and 13 and went to school in Ross on Wye. Before that, I visited often for holidays with my mother, the poet Frances Horovitz, who is buried in Orcop.

"I am very much looking forward to working with people of all ages from the county and hope to help them explore Herefordshire’s past, present and future.”

Chloe Garner, Festival Artistic Director said: “Poets are among the most creative people on the planet. I am sure that brilliant and exciting things will happen in Herefordshire as a result of Adam Horovitz’s time as poet in residence. I am looking forward to supporting Adam to ensure that we can make his ideas reality.”

Carol Ann Duffy, the Poet Laureate said: "Adam Horovitz writes poems of great beauty and truth; poems which are earned through experience, suffering and love and deployed in a physical language of scrupulous integrity. He is the real deal."