John Adlam 🌈🌍

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The Madrid Review

Just ran a final check of proofs for my poem on themes of sanctuary - 'The Arrivants' - which will appear in The Madrid Review Issue 7 - at the end of February, I believe...
themadridreview.com

Looking forward very much to this! 🤩

It's a corker of an issue, and a great poem Matt 👏👏 I have taken out a year's subscription on the back of this...🥰

...3/3... REHEARSE! Need to follow @dharmabam.bsky.social's wise advice and write up scansion of the poems before performing them. And read through aloud...I fluffed a pronunciation and my unconscious put in a change of word at one point. Interesting, but perhaps to be avoided! Onwards...!! 🫣🙏

2/3...the running order until you're called, which is a good format, but kept me sweating! And then two major bits of learning, if only I can learn them: first, I kept my voice up for the first one but then dropped off the volume for the other two - have to sustain intensity! And secondly...2/3

Thank you! My grammar got lost in the compressed word count of that post, it wasn't my all time debut open mic, but my first time at the Pumpkin, and only the second time I have done a live reading outside of Survivors' Poetry. That said, I was very nervous! A feeling sustained by not knowing...1/3

It’s that time of year for signing up for conferences - the @assocpsychosocial.bsky.social in Twickenham in June and, a couple weeks before that, the International Association for Forensic Psychotherapy, this time in Gozo, Malta - requiring an exception to my general practice of not flying places…😬

@survivors-poetry.bsky.social Zoom Party Tuesday 24 February - headliner poet will be Luciano Mezzetta, music from Grae J Wall, I have the honour of being MC/Zoom host …please email survivorspoetryevents@gmail.com to get yourself on the mailing list (and thereby the Zoom link for the event)

I have been out of this loop, trying to manage my online time (without massive success I must admit) but we can't go through this Friday theme day without The Band's glorious version of Long Black Veil...🥰
open.spotify.com/track/2mkz7L...

Debut open mic for me at the wonderful Cosmic Pumpkin last night, downstairs at the Royal Society of Arts, with gentle host @mrgeepoet.bsky.social and a good sprinkling of @survivors-poetry.bsky.social peeps among those present 🥰

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Thank you! I am very much looking forward to coming to Cosmic Pumpkin on Wednesday...🙏

I am very excited that one of my poems will be included in this next issue🙏🥰🙏

Survivors' Poetry are building our website and one work in progress is a gallery of writers and artists connected to the collective - the first four responders are up there now - check it out! survivorspoetry.co.uk/poets-and-po...

Yay, look what just arrived! 🥰
@secretsoliloquies.bsky.social

Me reading my poem 'Voyager' last night - my debut at the White Feather open mic at the Artillery Arms in Moorgate opposite Blake's cenotaph... A lovely evening brilliantly MC'd by Steve Tasane (third Tuesday evening of each month). Headliner yesterday was the VERY brilliant @mrgeepoet.bsky.social 🥰

I am so happy that two of my poems have been accepted for inclusion in this anthology - with my massive thanks to @paulwritespoems.bsky.social for believing in them! 🥰

Poets of Bluesky, come and join us in the Zoom Room on Tuesday 27th January from 7.00. Always a fabulous evening with @survivors-poetry.bsky.social 🙏🏼

Tonight's the night! Ease away those mid-January biorhythmic blues with poetry and music and a friendly crowd in the basement room of the Harrison. Five quid on the door and a legendary and lovely London local pub upstairs also offering its hospitality.... Open mic for anyone who wants to read..🥰

We are greatly looking forward to hosting @jeffcottrill.bsky.social as one of two featured poets in our open mic evening of words and music at The Harrison in King's Cross on Tuesday 9 June...

Blank Doubt sidled quietly through the doorway like a late arrival – two-faced, like January, settling in dank and chill between us.

New post on my Substack of a poem from last year. Thanks to @thebrokenspine.co.uk for the original prompt and to The Starbeck Orion for publishing this reading last July 🙏🙏🙏 open.substack.com/pub/johnadla...

Check This Out People!
This issue is going to blow your socks off and send your rockets into space!

www.frazzledlit.com/p/issue-4-la...

What is needed to fix homelessness in 2026? Efforts to tackle homelessness in 2026 will see the Vagrancy Act finally scrapped. But politicians must make it more than a symbolic gesture.

🗞 "We need a stepchange in how we deal with homelessness."

Our codirector Jess Turtle wrote the New Years opinion piece for The Big Issue saying what is needed from politicians in 2026:

www.bigissue.com/opinion/home...

O wow thank you again, will investigate tomorrow! 🙏🙏

Done! That's really helpful, thanks very much 🙏🥰

A spreadsheet! That sounds like a very good idea ....🥰

VERY true this 😠

Advance invitation for our first Survivors' Zoom Party of 2026 with Lee Campbell www.instagram.com/leejjcampbel... and Lilac Underworld instagram.com/lilacunderwo... and an international gathering of open mic artists...the original and best! 🥰 Drop us a line to get onto the mailing list 🙏🤜🤛🙏

The “captain it’s Wednesday” meme but the text read “what a year, huh?” “Captain, it’s January 3rd”