Liv Torc

The vibe is jelly shot vomit, most of my friends have left. Swastika seagulls gulp down middle-finger kebabs, dished out by a man in a MAGA hat barely hiding his lizard brain. Get out of your beanbag chair, find your coat among the pimp furs. Let’s go somewhere we can talk.

🌍 We’re proud to support @Hot_Poets Ignite, a new climate and poetry campaign uniting 20+ scientists and poets - including Michael Rosen - to inspire #ClimateAction. #ACEsupported thanks to National Lottery players @TNLUK 🔗 buff.ly/cMcDosy

I have no idea what is happening here but it is the best thing I’ve seen today!

@Hot_Poets is coming to the Natural History Museum Oxford this Friday with @katefoxwriter @ZenaEdwards for some planetary consciousness among the dinasaurs.

@watsoncomedian @caitlinmoran I heard 2 great ones in hospital recently... ‘Mr Hargreaves - next time you jump into a swimming pool, please make sure there’s water in it’ The receptionist, in a very loud voice, ‘This weekend I made sandwiches for Eddie the Eagle Edwards.’ Fair, I’d want EVERYONE to know.

Incredible eavesdrop just now: ‘…but then I saw Birds Of A Feather and it changed everything for me.’ It’s as close as I’ve come to chasing a stranger down and asking for closure.

Here’s Michelle Obama’s full remarks tonight. If you weren’t able to listen live, I encourage you to listen when you have the time. It’s of the best DNC speeches I’ve heard over the course of the last half a century.

Wow.

We asked our #ConsciousWritingMonth speakers their top tips for living a more conscious creative life. Author @LivTorc , will lead our session on ‘Poetry for the Planet’. Find out more here: literaryconsultancy.co.uk/event/consciou… #AmWriting #WritingCommunity #ConsciousClimate

These. THESE are ordinary people with legitimate concerns. Bristol, Liverpool, Walthamstow, Oxford, Newcastle, anti racists came out up & down the country - legends every single one of you❤️ #r4today

Feeling saddened by the violence in the UK at the moment, but remembering the words of the American actor/comedian Patton Oswalt after the Boston bombing. Hugs to all my friends and countrypeople, especially those being targeted. #UKriots #HopeNotHate

Not really been or experienced poetry before but absolutely blown away by @mcdizraeli and @lemnsissay whilst at #Womad2024 this weekend, wow isnt a big enough word 😬

Enjoyed Hot Poets with @ElvisMcGonagall reading in the science tent when poetry met physics @womad #poetry

Received this note at #WOMAD from a teacher: I remember those workshops at #thomastallis school and also #kidbrooke in Greenwich.

An extraordinary weekend at Hip Yak Poetry Shack @WOMADfestival Sometimes the sun does shine, the people do come and the shows work and everywhere you go, in a festival of 40,000 people, they stop to tell you that they love the poetry stage and how much it matters to them. 🙏

@DefraGovUK @AngelaRayner @SteveReedMP This is great news! Thank you 🙏

BREAKING: Following talks with water bosses, the Secretary of State @SteveReedMP sets out his first steps for cleaning up our rivers, lakes and seas.

It’s taken 800 years to get that photo. @rachelreeves will make a superb Chancellor.

Lovely unscripted moment this morning in the Welsh Parliament as a brilliant young choir from Ysgol Treganna in Cardiff - singing Safwn yn y Bwlch in rehearsal - bump into the Prime Minister (watch their reaction at the end 🎶)

“We are facing a crisis point...but the work of change has begun”. Our Secretary of State for the Environment, Food & Rural Affairs @SteveReedMP lays out his plan for change.

Brilliant!