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Adam Horovitz

@adamhorovitz.bsky.social
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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.

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Mic Wright @brokenbottleboy.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
I’ve written this up as a more complete story now: brokenbottleboy.substack.com/p/who-watche...
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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.
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angelafrance.bsky.social @angelafrance.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
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-...
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Alison Brackenbury @abrackenbury.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
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!
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CarolineJMolloy @carolinejmolloy.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
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
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Adam Horovitz @adamhorovitz.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
Reading in Vilnius last night with my excellent translator Kornelijus Platelis
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CarolineJMolloy @carolinejmolloy.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
Lots of discussion about young people in the news, how invisible they are in our politics. Here's a few thoughts on why 🧵
A lido
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Stephen Paul Wren @moleculesunlimited.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
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 😊
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CarolineJMolloy @carolinejmolloy.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
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: 🧵
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Adam Horovitz @adamhorovitz.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
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...
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Adam Horovitz @adamhorovitz.bsky.social · 06/04/2026
My latest pamphlet, written in collaboration with Ella Duffy, is the summer 2026 Poetry Book Society pamphlet choice. Find out more here:
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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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Bloodaxe Books @bloodaxebooks.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
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...
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CarolineJMolloy @carolinejmolloy.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
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
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CarolineJMolloy @carolinejmolloy.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
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?
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Katy Evans-Bush @katyevansbush.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
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...
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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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Adam Horovitz @adamhorovitz.bsky.social · 07/03/2026
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
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Adam Horovitz @adamhorovitz.bsky.social · 07/03/2026
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
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Bill Herbert @billherbert.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
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…
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CarolineJMolloy @carolinejmolloy.bsky.social · 01/03/2026
Timeline cleanse
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Adam Horovitz @adamhorovitz.bsky.social · 01/03/2026
@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!
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Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
BREAKING: A wonderful speech from Green Party's Hannah Spencer after winning the Gorton and Denton by-election. Congratulations!
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CarolineJMolloy @carolinejmolloy.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
Daily Mail beware the green menace Kermit meets evil Kermit
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Glennyrodge @glennyrodge.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
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Adam Horovitz @adamhorovitz.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
Not so much a shadow cabinet as a shadow safety deposit box…
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CarolineJMolloy @carolinejmolloy.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
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
Left to right - Zia Yusuf, Robert Jenrick, Nigel Farage, Richard Tice and Suella Braverman
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Jim Pickard @pickardje.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
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
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CarolineJMolloy @carolinejmolloy.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
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 😳
One UK official insisted, however, that Mandelson's appointment had made
sense at the time - and that he had been instrumental in securing the UK tech and
trade deals
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CarolineJMolloy @carolinejmolloy.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
This is partly about Palantir ofc but it goes way broader www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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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
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CarolineJMolloy @carolinejmolloy.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
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...
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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’
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John Grindrod @grindrod.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
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
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Adam Horovitz @adamhorovitz.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
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
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CarolineJMolloy @carolinejmolloy.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
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.
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Adam Horovitz @adamhorovitz.bsky.social · 03/01/2026
A new seasonal poem of mine, A Tender Farewell to the Bauble Bazaar
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CarolineJMolloy @carolinejmolloy.bsky.social · 30/12/2025
Here’s the post I was quoting, that the author has rather hastily detached my quote from!
Anthony Painter @anthonypainter.bs... • 9h There are lots of things you could say about this Government, but not being on the side of unionised workers is pretty out
there to be honest.
www.theguardian.com/politics/202..
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Guardian Unite leader tells Labour to 'stop being
embarrassed' to be voice of workers General secretary of party's main union
backer says it must change course or risk...
& www.theguardian.com
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Adam Horovitz @adamhorovitz.bsky.social · 04/12/2025
Never mind Elf on a Shelf, here’s…
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Adam Horovitz @adamhorovitz.bsky.social · 31/10/2025
Oh my, this is marvellous!
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Adam Horovitz @adamhorovitz.bsky.social · 27/10/2025
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Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla.bsky.social · 26/10/2025
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...
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The cleavage shot no UK tabloid will print
Want to understand how deeply weird the British press is on the subject of Russian interference? I have a bikini shot to show you...
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ginsbergpoem.bsky.social @ginsbergpoem.bsky.social · 24/10/2025
@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-...
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Adam Horovitz @adamhorovitz.bsky.social · 21/09/2025
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!
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Simon Opher @simonforstroud.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
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.
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Israel must let us help Palestine
As a medic and MP, I wanted to bear witness to the suffering in the West Bank. But Israel denied us entry
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Ink Sweat & Tears @inksweatandtears.co.uk · 18/09/2025
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!
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Adam Horovitz @adamhorovitz.bsky.social · 14/09/2025
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...
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Adam Horovitz @adamhorovitz.bsky.social · 14/09/2025
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...
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Ink Sweat & Tears @inksweatandtears.co.uk · 14/09/2025
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
Image of a train on grubby city tracks

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Awaiting Update

We cannot update you yet, other than to say we are caught
in a doldrums between stations and that your father can wait
as he has been waiting these past two years

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Adam Horovitz @adamhorovitz.bsky.social · 14/09/2025
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...
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Adam Horovitz | Ink Sweat and Tears
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Adam Horovitz @adamhorovitz.bsky.social · 08/09/2025
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!
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angelafrance.bsky.social @angelafrance.bsky.social · 28/08/2025
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-...
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Buzzwords Open Poetry Competition 2025
Please note: Deadline extended to September 30th! Sole Judge:  Rory Waterman who will read all entries Closing date for entries . Mid...
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Adam Horovitz @adamhorovitz.bsky.social · 27/08/2025
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.
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