Matt Goodwin makes a living out of railing against university educated elites & his whole schtick is "he was the first person in his family to go to university", which is a bit weird given that his Dad, now being heavily invoked for his Manchester connection, appears to have a string of degrees.

A new seasonal poem of mine, A Tender Farewell to the Bauble Bazaar

Here’s the post I was quoting, that the author has rather hastily detached my quote from!

Never mind Elf on a Shelf, here’s…

Oh my, this is marvellous!

NEW: The cleavage shot no UK tabloid will print. If you want to understand how truly ignorant and absent the British media is on Russian interference, read on. A Kremlin spy scandal, a trove of bikini shots....and still nothing but tumbleweed. open.substack.com/pub/broligar...

@billymills.bsky.social - "Pity the nation whose leaders are liars", Gregory Corso's A Bed's Lament", John Giorno's Dial-A-Poem, David Amram, Charles Upton, Zen in America - Friday's Weekly Round- Up on the Allen Ginsberg Project - allenginsberg.org/2025/10/f-o-...

Tomorrow night at the Crown and Sceptre, Horns Road, Stroud. Open mic with featured poet Kate Potts and more. Sign up for open mic from 7.30pm, event starts at 8pm. Entry free!

As a medic and MP, I wanted to bear witness to the suffering in the West Bank. But Israel denied us entry. Read my full piece for The New Statesman below.

We are extending our Pick of the Month vote for another 24 hours, until 6pm tomorrow, Friday 19 September. We share a selection of your comments with the shortlisted poets, so do please vote if you haven't already!

A new poem of mine up on Ink, Sweat & Tears this morning, remembering my father and staring out of train windows at the weird state of the world… inksweatandtears.co.uk/adam-horovit...

A new poem of mine up on Ink, Sweat & Tears this morning, remembering my father and staring out of train windows at the weird state of the world… inksweatandtears.co.uk/adam-horovit...

In 'Awaiting Update', Adam Horovitz's speaker narrates a surreal rail experience. Exploring loss, relationships and nature, the poem doesn't take long to get moving. @adamhorovitz.bsky.social Read it here: inksweatandtears.co.uk/adam-horovit... #InkSweatandTears #PoetryCommunity #Submission

A new poem of mine up on @inksweatandtears.co.uk this morning, remembering my father and staring out of train windows at the weird state of the world - inksweatandtears.co.uk/adam-horovit...

Just found what I can only presume is my grandfather Abraham’s enamelled office name plate, at the bottom of my grandma’s sewing table. Whether it came from pre-war Germany or from London I don’t know, but what a delightful thing to have!

Buzzwords poetry competition. We are extending the deadline to September 30th. Also, with thanks to the generosity of Alison Brackenbury we now have a £50 prize for Gloucestershire poets runner up. Please share! buzzwordspoetry.blogspot.com/p/buzzwords-...

Tuned in to the Grimsby - Man U penalty shootout on BBC Radio 5. Utterly delightful to hear the commentators’ genteel astonishment and increasing amusement as goal after goal after goal went in.

Seeing The Soil Never Sleeps being read in the wild makes me very happy!

Reading @adamhorovitz.bsky.social as I walk the Two Mors Way across Devon. Random page, sat on a hill, overlooking pastures, #Dartmoor in the distance, and a soil bioacoustics sensory in the ground. I'm literally trying to listen to the soil, to the landscape. I'm only wearing a little gor-tex

A limited edition poster of my poem in memoriam John Marjoram, Britain’s first #Green councillor and mayor, printed letterpress in green ink on eco-friendly paper; all profits to Stroud Valleys Project. A few for sale online, the rest from the SVP shop. www.adamhorovitz.co.uk/shop/the-fun...

Ever so slightly terrified to be going to this at Rodborough Tabernacle this evening, at which various people I know, and some I don't, will be reading my poems back to me.

Come to the launch tomorrow (Saturday)! 3pm, The Museum in the Park, Stratford Park, Stroud.

Excited for our 60th anniversary celebration at Winchester Poetry Festival! Join us for 'Translating The Classics', with Naush Sabah and Philip Terry! Saturday 11th October, 4-5pm Book here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/translatin...

I love this article, about how Superman started off with beating up employers who didn’t respect workers rights, and tackling other similar abuses of power… it is as @adamhorovitz.bsky.social told me 🤓https://www.bbc.co.uk/culture/article/20250703-how-superman-started-out-as-a-radical-rebel

@billymills.bsky.social - Michael Horovitz - Remembering the late poet iconoclast, Michael Horovitz, Blake-o-phile, Ginsberg-o-phile "a key literary figure in the British counterculture movement of the Sixties" - allenginsberg.org/2025/07/m-j-...

A wonderful book at a bargain price, if you have a Kindle…

Here’s an extract from Michael Horovitz’s unpublished poem Synagogue Music, from the first issue of The Aftershock Review, with audio. “This is Michael at his most vital: provocative, prophetic, and still asking the hardest questions.” Max Wallis aftershockpoetry.substack.com/p/synagogue-...

“We’ve suddenly just noticed disability benefit spending has gone up, so that’s why we have to cut it suddenly & without consulting disabled ppl, despite our manifesto promises to put them at the heart of decision making” really isn’t a great argument Timms is making to @debbieabrahamsmp.bsky.social

NEW POEM #244: "Practice Run" by Todd Dillard (@toddedillard.bsky.social) "'The Rapture! Someone's been yanked to heaven!' The girls argued. How could it be the Rapture if they were still here? How could someone with a mustard-stained t-shirt go before them?" stonecirclereview.com/practice-run/

New from Indigo Dreams Publishing, my second collection with them - Slow Migrations. The collection 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.

Persons of London! I'll be in town soon to launch my memoir Boater - first at the Poetry Pharmacy inside LUSH on Oxford Street (Weds 20 June) and then in Word on the Water near King's X (Weds 2 July, 3-7pm) Both free - and for the Poetry Pharmacy you need to book via the link below. Please come!

Wrote this yesterday to the memory of the splendid John Marjoram, first Green councillor, and mayor, in the country and part of the lifeblood of Stroud for over 50 years. stroudtimes.com/the-funeral-...

I’m reading poems with music tonight at the launch of this new venture in #stroud tonight. 9.30pm on Locking Hill. stroudtimes.com/streaming-st...

Coming very soon from Indigo Dreams Publications, my latest book Slow Migrations, poems written in response to Corinium Museum's Neolithic collection and The Roman Baths at Bath, and to music by Chris Cundy as we explored those places together. Keep an eye out for more information soon!

fair play, that’s a decent signing

Open mic at the Crown & Sceptre, Stroud, Monday May 19th. Featured readers are Frank McMahon and Mark Corcoran. Sign up for open mic on the night from 7.30pm. Entry free. #stroud #poetry #openmic

I first interviewed Alan Moore in 2009, and one of the things he said then has reverberated in my head louder and louder over the last ten years. He was reading the entrails of the 20th century long before the shit hit the fan.

Open mic at the Crown & Sceptre, Stroud, Monday May 19th. Featured readers are Frank McMahon and Mark Corcoran. Sign up for open mic on the night from 7.30pm. Entry free. #stroud #poetry #openmic

On the train to Hereford to record a poem for an album, set to improvised music, listening to Youth’s ambient take on Ginsberg’s Iron Horse (written while travelling across America by train). A perfect confluence of mood, need and situation. All is light and blur and words rolling over sounds.

Ye gods! Please sign this.

This is horrifying. You can’t replace an ancient woodland or stream with plastic tube saplings somewhere else and say hey ho, job done, kerching to the property developers, top marks. We used to say it was the *Tories* who knew the price of everything and the value of nothing….

To celebrate the completion of The Library Trilogy with THE BOOK THAT HELD HER HEART, I'm giving away the full set of signed Locked Library special editions. To enter just repost. Contest held across my socials - enter elsewhere too to increase chances. Winner chosen randomly from all entries.

Kate Potts will be launching her third poetry book Pretenders at Museum in the Park in Stroud tomorrow, Sat 12 April, at 2.30pm! Guest readers: J.L.M. Morton, Adam Horovitz and Cath Drake. All welcome. Tea, coffee, cake and wine will be provided. Details: shorturl.at/gputU

🙄👇BBC ignores what experts & Trump himself are telling us - that a key goal is to smash non-tariff barriers - ie regulation on everything from food & pharma standards, to data exploitation & AI. To stop any government regulating to protect its citizens from corporations www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

It turns out that the online poetry short course I'm running as a fundraiser for the Welshpool Poetry Festival has a few places left. Why don't you join us? It will run on a Sunday evening in May and June and the fee is modest. Let me know if you want to know more. [email protected]

April Fool’s day special: this morning, having had a temporary filling fitted yesterday, I was attempting to carefully eat an apple, and sneezed furiously, several times, mid-bite. No more filling, and no more apples till the proper replacement is done. Gah!

This is not what I voted for**. I’m a lifelong trade unionist, & this kind of divisive & inaccurate nonsense is what decent trade unionists* have spent their lives fighting. Get people in unions, don’t give succour to racists. *Yes, unions not always perfect ** I really didn’t. I voted Green

Good grief, if the top Trump team were made into a game of Top Trumps, they’d all be scoring pretty close to zero in every category except ‘slavish devotion’, ‘self-importance’ and ‘danger to others’…