John Adlam 🌈🌍

Nice!
I only just saw this btw. Is it possible that something about the hashtag is not working? See also recent posts about the feed not being available at all yesterday...🙄

I had something very similar yesterday. Some kind of glitch in the routing, presumably (he says, knowing not really whereof he speaks...) 🙄

#WednesayWIPs posting the above about the delivery Chirico poem seems to have opened the sluice, if not the floodgates, to a wee ekphrastic excursion...so there you go...work in progress...🥰

It sounds very difficult...😟

#WednesdayWIPs
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'The Uncertainty of the Poet' by Giorgio de Chirico (part of the open collection at Tate Modern)

Seemed apt for this space! 🥰

An ornate antique mirror with a heavily tarnished and speckled surface, reflecting a faint, distorted background. The frame is baroque-style, featuring elaborate gold and black detailing with a sculpted lion's face at the top. In the top left is The Broken Spine logo shaped like a fountain pen nib. The website "@thebrokenspine.co.uk" is written in white at the top right. At the bottom right, bold white text reads: "Read Repost Reply #POEMSABOUT #IMPERFECTME".

#PoemsAbout #ImperfectMe kicks off Friday. Think fractured reflections, messy middles, scars that still speak. Draft, hold, then post from Friday. Use Alt Text. Tag properly or we won’t find it. For inbox prompts every Saturday: shorturl.at/0Xm7A

Oh my there is SO MUCH POETRY in this collection (at the Royal Festival Hall), and SO little time... 😆❤️

#bellends 👏👏👏

‘To be disappointed is human. It is also human to be disappointed’; sneak preview of the 1st line of John & Chris’ BRILLIANT chapter on the creative mobilisation of disappointment. Perfectly positioned on p.101. No disappointment there 😊

🤣🥰🤣 I am DELIGHTED to find that we are on page 101 🤜🤛

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I am proud to have contributed a co-written chapter with Chris Scanlon to this new and essential book edited by @tanyamoore.bsky.social and Claudia Megele...due to be published 21 November...🥰
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Listen I definitely propose we should share the feedback among the three of us 🥰

Sonnet for Perimenopause – Victoria Spires Sonnet for Perimenopause . . Victoria Spires is published in Berlin Lit & The London Magazine. She has been commended/shortlisted in: Ledbury, TPW Prize, Aesthetica Arts, Artemesia Arts, Plough…

Sonnet for Perimenopause – Victoria Spires @victoriaspires.bsky.social

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Something Gothic This Way Comes: Submit to The Havisham Steps: Modern Gothic Poetry - The Broken Spine Submissions Open Throughout October 2025 | Publication in 2026

Something Gothic this way comes… Submissions are OPEN for The Havisham Steps: Modern Gothic Poetry. We want poems of neon dread, fractured love, haunted minds.

Closing date: October 31st

#PoetrySubmissions #SubmissionWindow #TheHavishamSteps #ModernGothicPoetry

This just arrived today - I have three poems included - clustered together as a mini-section of the Journal under the heading "At Gordium: of Fog and Storm and Hubris". I am very excited! Massive thanks to Anthony Barnett and Ian Brinton for all that they do abar.net/snow.pdf

Thank you for a wonderful response Ronnie. Jethro Tull! That's an amazing and illuminating association 🙏🥰🙏

#WednesdayWIPs
@thebrokenspine.co.uk
That rollercoaster ride when you dig out a poem you thought might work for a call for contributions, find that it won't do at all, rewrite the thing in a flurry of seeing suddenly where it should have gone all along - then worry you've made it worse....anyone? 🤔🥰

Thank you so much, Rachel! Cool! I haven't slept so close as you did, from what you say, but I was in one of the medium rise tower blocks at Loughborough Junction for a while, and have walked from the Ritzy to the Hermit's Cave and back again on many a moonless night...🥰

A week and a half to go! We have a great audience signed up but there are still places available...come join the conversation and help us join new ones...👇👇🙏🥰

Hey Ronnie I must apologise - I responded to the prompt before I made my way down the feed and saw that you also had conjured a street musician! I love it ❤️

@emteepoetry.bsky.social that is wonderful feedback, so kind of you! I am very happy this poem landed so well. I admit sometimes I have to look up some of the words I use even after I've used them, for my memory is no longer as I remember it...brevity & clarity - a winning but elusive combination!🙏🥰

Cadenza Marooned along Coldharbour Lane, the shipwrecked street philosopher sorties doggedly from the colonnade that shelters his paperscrap Academy. He raises his saxophone voice to the dome of the Camberwell night - summoning the perfervid blue cadenzas of his storytelling from the deep storm cellars of his vagabond soul.

@rfsmith.bsky.social
#promptcombo #characters
Thank you for this lovely prompt. This is one of an occasional series of poems (revised; first posted for #PoemsAbout), touching on legends of figure of Diogenes - a character for our times... South London is also a character in my writing, I think...😊🙏

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A #LiftToTheSky for this wonder-filled & venerable anthology. Choice moments so far: "...the other hand fingered the pistol.  My asshole / dropped out / and crawled all the way back to El Paso" (Paul Blackburn); "Everything is water / if you look long enough" (Robert Creeley) ❤️

A psychiatric hospital is not a factory The technocrats are taking over the asylums with batteries of nostrums – capitalising the castle, parcelling up the parklands for gymnasiums and luxury flats – whilom mercenaries marching on to market...

New post yesterday to my 'John Adlam Poems' substack - I read this out at the @asylummagazine.bsky.social Zoom launch event for their Autumn issue 32(3)...
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The covers of Sixty Odd Poets - Soixante Neuf, and Ourselves Reflected Back, two Poetry Anthologies with imminent launches, along with a Poster for a forthcoming evening of poetry and Music at Colony Room Green, Soho.

Three upcoming #poetry events
"Soixante Neuf" is launched @ the Fox Gallery in Mexborough, South Yorkshire on 28 Sep at 3pm
"Ourselves Reflected Back" is launched @ the Rotherham Civic Theatre on 2nd Oct at 7pm
And "Up North, Down South" is on Sat 11 Oct at 8pm @ Soho, London
See you there?

Perfect! 😆

....artichokes...❤️❤️

For #PoemsAbout #NeverAgain with thanks to host @alanparrywriter.co.uk @thebrokenspine.co.uk and all those participating. This week has been difficult, but/so I wrote this.

I will try not to try you too hard ☺️