Adam Neikirk

Peter Cheyne's list of ways to get out of a slump as a graduate student sounds like a poem that hasn't been written yet too...

Following on from our Roundtable, join us for our BARS Digital Event: Romantic Creativity Workshop!

Mon Dec 15, 4pm-5:30pm GMT

This creative writing workshop will reflect critically on key ideas delivered by the speakers from the previous session.
Free tickets: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/bars-digit...

This event is starting in just a couple of hours! Please join us for *checks notes* 21 ideas in a trenchcoat... an academic roundtable on "Romantic creativity"!!!

In 1 week! We now have SEVEN speakers, so come along!

In 1 week! We now have SEVEN speakers, so come along!

The most precious commodity you have is your attention. You don’t have to waste it on poor-faith debates or arguments with strangers if you don’t think they’ll be productive. You can prioritize the things that matter to you and make your life richer.

Final reminder before we stop spamming your Bluesky feed: THE DEADLINE IS TODAY!

The greatest damage done by the advent of AI is that everyone now uses the phrase “at scale” whenever they need some quick and dirty credibility

Got the cutest niece around!

I have a lot of "I'm annoyed by something but can't remember what it is" moods these days. I guess there are benefits to getting older

🎉 Upcoming BARS Digital Event: Romantic Creativity Roundtable

8th Dec, 1-2:30pm GMT

6 speakers reflect on the relationship between Romanticism & creativity as it permeates writing, teaching and research. Chaired by @adamneikirk.bsky.social

More details & free tickets: www.bars.ac.uk/blog/?p=6228

Holy moly I just realised every paper on the "Creative-Critical Writing and Romanticism" panel is about Coleridge...

Quickly changing the session title/theme to reflect this. I'm doing it at the very last moment, in the spur of the moment.

5 days to submit! Scribble down those ideas! ✍️

Norwegian Wood: P. B. Shelley’s Palimpsestic Pines This essay explores the appearance of a distinctively Northern European tree, the pine, in Shelley’s works between 1814 and 1817. This period corresponds with the Shelleys’ continental travels and ...

🌲'Passing through [pine and fir groves], I have been struck with a mystic kind of reverence', Wollstonecraft, 'Letters from Norway'🌲

Excited to have my article on 'Shelley's Palimpsestic Pines', included in the 'British Romanticism and Europe' special issue of ERR 🍃 doi.org/10.1080/1050...

And it’s followed by a poetry workshop on the 15th - come write with us! ☄️

A question that has come up during my book that I can’t easily answer:

Does anyone ever describe contemporary poetry as “sweet” or is this mostly an anachronism now?

Would you read a new volume of poetry that was praised for its “sweetness”?

I finished my abstract today and the creative-critical session is firing... 😄

I am starting a new job today. Unfortunately, it is not an academic job. But it *is* a job. And I still have time in the morning to work on my book, so what's not to love?

Whether the summer clothe the general earth
With greenness, or the redbreast sit and sing
Betwixt the tufts of snow on the bare branch
Of mossy apple-tree, while the nigh thatch
Smokes in the sun-thaw; whether the eve-drops fall
Heard only in the trances of the blast, . . .

An unacknowledged legislator of business law :(

Just a reminder that the deadline for #BARS2026 is approaching for papers, and we are just *one* panelist away from having a full creative-critical panel!

Also a reminder to myself to write my abstract for my own creative-critical paper...

Congratulations!

'what even is a jellyfish'

preparing a class on animal histories

Painting of a. Night sky with light colored streaks running diagonally across it. Silhouette of trees in front

Forced myself to socialize yesterday by going to a paint night fundraiser.

Don’t forget: you can do it!

Sending out an endless flurry of Romantic Poets in the Wild emails today. But always looking for more people to feature! Please get in touch with me if you are a creative writer or artist inspired by Romanticism or working Romanticism-adjacent... or even an academic! I want to make lots of episodes!

The K-SAA is excited to share about an exciting digital event celebrating the publication of Volume IV of the Johns Hopkins University Press edition of Percy Bysshe Shelley’s poetry! Please find more info on the #KSAABlog: www.k-saa.org/blog/jhu4-ev...

Zohran Mamdani's Establishment-Fighting Campaign Built Community for Young People “What Mamdani has done is not only inspire and mobilize young people, but he has exposed the establishment and some of their calcified views of participation and inclusion.”

here is my story about how Zohran's focus on community amid the loneliness epidemic helped young people connect their politics to an organizing infrastructure, that interviewed ZM, and does not use the NYT's framing of "they don't know how to make friends" :-) and also ran 4 days before NYT's lol

I didn't create this conference poster but I wish I had