Reading in Vilnius last night with my excellent translator Kornelijus Platelis

Lots of discussion about young people in the news, how invisible they are in our politics. Here's a few thoughts on why 🧵

Molecules Unlimited is setting up an online poetry journal! Issue one submissions are open for unpublished work of any length. The closing date is July 15th & the theme is HEART. Poems need to impinge on the chemical sciences in some way. Please submit to [email protected] & spread the word 😊

I don't have a vote in today's local government elections, as they aren't taking part in my area. But - after 7 weeks of focusing almost exclusively on what my own local government is up to, I do have some thoughts. What has really come home to me over the last few weeks is as follows: 🧵

A new term of in-person poetry classes at The Trinity Rooms in Stroud starts this month, led by Adam Horovitz. For more information, or to sign up, follow this link www.adamhorovitz.co.uk/readings-and...

My latest pamphlet, written in collaboration with Ella Duffy, is the summer 2026 Poetry Book Society pamphlet choice. Find out more here:

Last night's excellent online launch reading with Lily Blacksell, Rita Ann Higgins and John McCullough is now available to watch on YouTube: youtube.com/live/p_0hOeo... All three poets' new books are available to order now from the Bloodaxe website: www.bloodaxebooks.com/ecs/new_titl...

As there are many unanswered questions and some of the stuff on the website and the papers doesnt quite add up Cc @simonforstroud.bsky.social

Oh hey @strouddc.bsky.social @chloeturnerwriting.bsky.social @stroudgreens.org.uk given that you only told users about the planned lido mothballing on Thursday, and the deadline to submit public questions to the relevant committee was 12noon Friday, do you think you might extend that deadline?

We're in the final stretch now - one week to go and it just feels like everything is hanging by a thread. Help us get Cat (and the cats) out of Trump's America and back to safety and healthcare here in the UK x www.gofundme.com/f/catsmedica...

Last December several poets (myself included) were invited to write poems in a morning at, and about, the Stroud Farmers’ Market, by Dialect and the Gloucestershire Poetry Society. You can read them if you follow the link in the comments… Photo by Emma Kernahan

Last December several poets (myself included) were invited to write poems in a morning at, and about, the Stroud Farmers’ Market, by Dialect and the Gloucestershire Poetry Society. You can read them if you follow the link in the comments… Photo by Emma Kernahan

There was not just an echo of Yeats but a hint of precognition in @adamhorovitz.bsky.social’s post in our #FallOfAmerica series: the old men in their high castles built of cloud may control the weather for a little while – but this this is a time of solid states made molten…

Timeline cleanse

@cerysmatthews.bsky.social great to hear Matthew Francis’s versions of Dafydd ap Gwillym on the show - and that wonderful Peggy Lee song. Happy St David’s Day!

BREAKING: A wonderful speech from Green Party's Hannah Spencer after winning the Gorton and Denton by-election. Congratulations!

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Not so much a shadow cabinet as a shadow safety deposit box…

Welcome to Reform’s front bench Yusuf, Hampton School, £29,916 per year Jenrick, Wolverhampton Grammar, £17,835 per year Farage, Dulwich College, £30,618 per year Tice, Uppingham School, £58,176 per year Braverman, Heathfield School, defunct private school The authentic voice of the working class

the FT had by Saturday night broken two stories showing that the Mandelsons had taken over $100,000 from the world’s most famous paedophile by Monday we were all writing various stories about him leaking sensitive state secrets to Epstein they could have easily pulled this puff piece in time

Right, these would be the tech & trade deals so amazing that *checks notes* the government is doing everything it can to avoid us seeing the details? Still, Mandelson eh, I’m sure that’s all good, nothing to worry about 😳

This is partly about Palantir ofc but it goes way broader www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

so hang on a minute, the UK (significantly, erm, “represented“ in negotiations by Mandelson) has just signed a trade deal with the US that gives into their demands for NHS to pay way more for medicines…. & yet Streeting won’t even tell us the barest details? 🤯 www.theguardian.com/society/2026...

Toss up between Mandelson’s decades long career collapse and the entropic heat death of the universe as to which is slower and more inevitable

I am launching my new pamphlet, Rock Paper Scissors, written in collaboration with Ella Duffy, tonight at 6.30. If you’d like to sign up, free tickets can be found here: www.dialect.org.uk/events

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.