When it honks like a goose, has the beak and feathers of a goose, and steps like a goose… it is safe to call it a goose #ElonMusk

NOW they worry about copyright infringement… bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…

At this year's Stroud Film Festival, I'm introducing a showing of a 1966 BBC film, Mo, directed by John McGrath (one of my father Michael Horovitz's key collaborators on early New Departures magazines & live shows) which features singer Mo Kennedy Martin, John Renbourne... /1 🧵

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Please help us - 6 days to help start a radical new magazine. crowdfunder.co.uk/p/aftershock-r…

Well worth following this advice from societyofauthors if your book(s) etc have been skimmed to train AI for Meta. Never give a Zucker an even break societyofauthors.org/2025/03/21/the…

Huge thanks to Tom Sastry, & the open mic readers, for an excellent night at the Crown & Sceptre poetry and spoken word open mic last night. Tom’s new book, Life Expectancy Begins to Fall is well worth getting, if you missed out last night. Nine Arches Press

Kate Potts will be launching her third poetry book Pretenders at Museum in the Park, 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

To celebrate completing The Library Trilogy with THE BOOK THAT HELD HER HEART, I'm giving away the full set of signed Locked Library special editions. Winner selected randomly from entries across my social media. Just retweet & you're in!

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

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 Frank McMahon

The latest goverment guff about farming is… “The problem with farming is the lack of profitability” This is a short thread on why this sensible-sounding focus should be treated with great suspicion… A 🧵

#Stroud folk, I’m reading with music at 9.30 tonight at the launch of this exciting new venture down on Locking Hill! Come check out the new space, enjoy the ambience, listen to a few poems and some music and find out more! stroudtimes.com/streaming-stud…