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# Reading Poems & Testing Livestream Features
- URL: https://www.tom-shaw.uk/reading-poems-and-testing-livestream/
- Published: 2025-04-22T20:06:25.000Z
- Updated: 2025-04-22T20:06:25.000Z
- Description: A taster of what's possible
- Author: Tom Shaw
- Tags: Live and Direct, #substack, #substack-type-podcast, #substack-access-everyone, #Import 2026-10-24 12:50

This video was taken from a somewhat-impromptu tester I did of Substack Live, where I read out some poems [from my previous books](https://tom-shaw.uk/born-anew-and-other-poems/?ref=tom-shaw.uk) and explored the capabilities of the current system. I was also graced by the [Silly poems](https://open.substack.com/users/3801815) mastermind [Harry Radcliffe](https://open.substack.com/users/310817847), where we collaborated on finishing off his next silly poem for Substack.

[Lighting The Kindling![](https://cdn.mymidnight.blog/a14ac55a4f27472c5d894ec1c3c743d2/substack-post-media-s3-amazonaws-com/public/images/10bb0009-5e84-44ee-a718-12b501f3eb7a_1280x1280.png)Tom ShawTom Shaw![](https://images.unsplash.com/photo-1585483266738-0a57093414c0?crop=entropy&cs=tinysrgb&fit=max&fm=jpg&ixid=M3wzMDAzMzh8MHwxfHNlYXJjaHwyMHx8Y2FtcGZpcmV8ZW58MHx8fHwxNzI4NzUyMDkxfDA&ixlib=rb-4.0.3&q=80&w=1080)](https://www.tom-shaw.uk/lighting-the-kindling/)

It cut out the very beginning of the recording, I believe because there’s some sort of “preview” time before I actually go live. I need to play around with the settings more to figure this out.

While I would love the ability to be able to run these from my computer and schedule them more efficiently in advance (this feature is currently only available to Apple users, strangely), I think there’s something here that can bring the pieces of Substack poets to life.

Thank you for everyone who tuned into this live video with [Harry Radcliffe](https://open.substack.com/users/310817847). Join me for my next live video in the app.

![](https://cdn.mymidnight.blog/a14ac55a4f27472c5d894ec1c3c743d2/substack-post-media-s3-amazonaws-com/public/images/10bb0009-5e84-44ee-a718-12b501f3eb7a_1280x1280.png)

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Tom