Adam Horovitz
@adamhorovitz.bsky.social
Writer and performer. Poetry in particular. Books published: Turning, A Thousand Laurie Lees, The Soil Never Sleeps, Love and Other Fairy Tales. Slow Migrations coming soon from Indigo Dreams.
I’ve written this up as a more complete story now: brokenbottleboy.substack.com/p/who-watche...
Who watches the Watchman? Reform UK’s new ‘investigative journalism’ front revealed
The story of a brave reporter infiltrating the migrant boats is a perfectly tooled piece of propaganda designed to give Nigel Farage a new version of the same old story.
brokenbottleboy.substack.com
Just under a month to get your poems into The Buzzwords co,petition, judged by Penelope Shuttle (who will read all entries). We only run this so that we can pay guest poets, we take nothing from it, please support us and share if you can. buzzwordspoetry.blogspot.com/p/buzzwords-...
So many good poets!Including @zoebrooks.bsky.social @daydreamacademy.bsky.social @hannahcopley.bsky.social @kymdeyn.bsky.social @gosspoems.bsky.social @godzillakent.bsky.social @adamhorovitz.bsky.social @jlmmorton.bsky.social I could & should go on, but I'm there throughout & hope to hear all!
what would help see off “decline p*rn“ is for activists to fight that decline - fight for every universal service, every swimming pool, hospital, library, youth club - if seen as unsexy activism compared to performative “solidarity” (& social entrepreneurial niches), we cede the terrain to the fash
Benjamin Clark@benjamin-clark.bsky.social · 3mo agoDecline porn will be familiar to many—relentless negativity about British cities + connection drawn between immigration and urban decline. But much of it is exaggerated, and it has allowed the right to avoid confronting their own contributions to national ‘decline’ ie austerity and Brexit
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 Issue one submissions are open for unpublished work of any length.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 stephenwren62@gmail.com & 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:
Rock Paper Scissors — Adam Horovitz – Poetry
Adam’s latest pamphlet, Rock Paper Scissors , written in collaboration with Ella Duffy, is the Summer 2026 Poetry Book Society pamphlet choice. Commissioned by Dialect, who specialise in collabora...
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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...
Donate to Urgent help for Cat's medical move back to the UK, organized by Cat Smith
The last year of my life has been incredibly difficult, chronic and acute … Cat Smith needs your support for Urgent help for Cat's medical move back to the UK
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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…
@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…
CarolineJMolloy@carolinejmolloy.bsky.social · 7mo agoWelcome 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
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
Philip Stafford@staffordphilip.bsky.social · 7mo agoEven the dog doesn't want to be in this pic
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...
Mandelson’s links with US tech firm Palantir must be fully exposed, campaigners warn
Government faces call for transparency on former peer’s involvement amid fears he may have leaked more sensitive information
theguardian.com
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...
Pressure grows on ministers to end secrecy over UK medicines deal with Trump
Critics say government hiding true cost of agreement ‘despite being forced to admit financial burden will grow year on year’
theguardian.com
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
