Liv Torc

Human, mother, poet, spoken word artist, UN consultant, weaver. I run the poetry stage at WOMAD, Hot Poets, Haiku Futures, Haiflu and Banana Poems

[Liv Torc @LivTorc]

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.

[Arts Council England, South West @ace_southwest]

🌍 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

🔗 https://t.co/D3rZN0OzUV

[Nature is Amazing ☘️ @AMAZlNGNATURE]

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

[Liv Torc @LivTorc]

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

[The Cultural Programme @oxfculturalprog]

Hear from @LivTorc & @Chris_Redmond_ of @Hot_Poets about what you can expect from their show next Friday, 25 October @morethanadodo.

Join us from 7.30pm, taking place just after our Conscious Planet Symposium Day; book your ticket now: https://t.co/fV0ZZjIGAu

#poetry #climate

[Liv Torc @LivTorc]

@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.

[Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath]

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.

[Seth Abramson @SethAbramson]

Wow.

[The Literary Consultancy @TLCUK]

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: https://t.co/6OrXoUNPuX

#AmWriting #WritingCommunity #ConsciousClimate

[Zoe Gardner @ZoeJardiniere]

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

[Cangarwbach 💙 @cangarwbach]

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

[Craig @CraSh_Williams]

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 😬

[Anna Chorlton @anna_chorlton]

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

[lemn sissay OBE FRSL @lemnsissay]

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

[Liv Torc @LivTorc]

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. 🙏

[Liv Torc @LivTorc]

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

[Defra UK @DefraGovUK]

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

[Ian Murray MP @IanMurrayMP]

It’s taken 800 years to get that photo.

@rachelreeves will make a superb Chancellor.

[Andy Davies @adavies4]

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 🎶)

[Defra UK @DefraGovUK]

“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.

[Liv Torc @LivTorc]

Brilliant!