Ooh look what just landed (I know, I am late coming to this!). Amazing pamphlet by the wonderful @leiabutler.bsky.social via @brokensleepbooks.bsky.social, and thanks @thepaulconnolly.bsky.social for the recommendation 🥰
John Adlam FRSA 🌈🌍
@johnadlam.bsky.social
groups 🔄 activist research ✍ #welcometheboats ⛵ #antiracistpractice ✊ #traumanotpd ❌ Gaia theory 🌍 psychosocial studies 📚 practices of equality 🤝 open mic poetry 🎤 Bob Dylan 🎸 Brixton 🧡 https://barrelblog.org https://open.substack.com/pub/johnadlampoems
Still buzzing - will be buzzing a while yet! - that this poem has been nominated for Best of the Net 2027. Thank you again @paulwritespoems.bsky.social ! This is my Substack repost with a wee commentary and more promotion of the anthology Unwhispered Legacy! 🥰 johnadlampoems.substack.com/p/wetland
Wetland
Dry is but the domain of distant memory.
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I can't quite believe this is happening! The anthology of the year is the gift that keeps giving 🥰 Thank you so much @paulwritespoems.bsky.social for this most generous accolade, in such wonderful company, and thank you again for all that you do 🤜🤛🙏🙏❤️
Paul@paulwritespoems.bsky.social · last wk.Announcing the Best Of athe Net nominees from the Unwhispered Legacy anthology @moleculesunlimited.bsky.social @victoriaspires.bsky.social @merrildsmith.bsky.social @johnadlam.bsky.social @leiabutler.bsky.social & Kate Vanhinsbergh 👏👏👏
Finally. The day has come to release Unwhispered Legacy from The Book Bag x Write Here, Right Now out into the world. Thank you to all the poets who contributed to this book. Proudly raising money for MSF. Visit 🔗 shorturl.at/iVhZN to download your copy. #poetry #anthology
We at SP would just like to get excited with y'all about many poetry feasts in store this autumn...take an anticipatory bow @alanparrywriter.co.uk and @throwawayreg.bsky.social (September) @internetofwords.com plus tba (October) @leiabutler.bsky.social and @thepaulconnolly.bsky.social (December)🥳 🥰
Survivors' Poetry Zoom Party!!!! Tuesday 28 July 7.30pm. Performance poetry! Spoken word! Music! Art! Agitprop! Solidarity!! And lastly but not leastly, good cheer!!! ❤️❤️
Totally! @paulwritespoems.bsky.social you were a wonderful host as always, and this time in very difficult circumstances. Thank you so much 🙏🙏
Paul Connolly@thepaulconnolly.bsky.social · last wk.I am sure that members of the #poetrycommunity who were at Paul Short’s @paulwritespoems.bsky.social Book Bag Open Mic this evening will want to pay tribute to the grace and fortitude he showed in hosting the event. Well done Paul, you’re a complete star. And from all of us: get well soon 💙
This 👇 I seem to be Emcee for the duration, but don't let that deter you 🥰 Kate and Tim will make for an absolutely classic double bill 🤜🤛
Survivors' Poetry 🎤📚🌈@survivors-poetry.bsky.social · 3w agoSurvivors' Poetry Zoom Party!!!! Tuesday 28 July 7.30pm. Performance poetry! Spoken word! Music! Art! Agitprop! Solidarity!! And lastly but not leastly, good cheer!!! ❤️❤️
A wild night of Allen-Ginsberg-fest at the South Bank yesterday, with bits and pieces of The Raincoats and Sonic Youth and a singalong to William Blake to round things off...❤️
Hot work at the South Bank Poetry International Festival this afternoon... www.southbankcentre.co.uk/events/poetr...
Poetry International Festival | Southbank Centre
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We can't wait to hear Dorian Nightingale @secretsoliloquies.bsky.social make his 'SP Featured Poet' debut in Tuesday evening's Zoom Party. + the wonderful Sam Castell Ward & an international cast of open mic performers. Drop us a line with your email if inexplicably not yet on the mailing list! 😄🥰🙏🙏
Survivors' Poetry 🎤📚🌈@survivors-poetry.bsky.social · 2mo agoFirst call for the SP Zoom Party Tuesday 23 June, with the brilliant @secretsoliloquies.bsky.social as featured poet, also featuring folk punk from the wonderful www.instagram.com/SamCastellWard. MC @ajmurraymints.bsky.social Shout if not on our mailing list for the Zoom link and would like to be! ❤️
Brixton Market is at risk of being bought by private equity developers, pushing out independent traders, bringing in chain stores. Locals are launching an emergency counter-bid to bring it into community ownership by 22/6. Add your name to keep it independent: you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/bu...
Back the community bid to keep Brixton Market independent
Private equity developers are trying to buy Brixton Market. Support the local traders' emergency counter-bid to keep it in community hands before the June 22nd deadline. Add your name to the petition:
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...discuss...🥰 (From 'The London Magazine', via Insta)
A super-dynamic and unforgettable slam-style spoken word performance from visiting featured artist @jeffcottrill.bsky.social last night at Survivors' Poetry at the Harrison. Also a warm and appreciative shout out to our other featured poet of the evening, the truly sublime Julie Cheung 🥰
Another great night at The Harrison...with @chrisleeds.bsky.social seeing out the evening with poignant, lambent versions of 'Lakes of Pontchartrain' and 'Arthur McBride' ❤️
HURRY UP PLEASE, IT'S TIME! Last call for our FREE online launch tomorrow (Wed 10th June, 6.30pm, UK time) on Zoom of 'Shored Fragments...' shorturl.at/asE2f #eliot #spokenword #poetrylovers #poetry #poet #poem #modernism
A very pleasant parcel-opening experience under soggy grey skies this morning - the Arcana Press anthology 'Smitten with the written' - which features my self-satirical poem 'Wordfish' (cue swordfish emoji, except there isn't one!) 🥰
open.substack.com/pub/johnadla... New old poem for my substack, with many thanks to @atriumpoetry.bsky.social - @clairewalkerpoetry.bsky.social and @hollyannepoet.bsky.social - who recently published this 🙏 - and to @alanparrywriter.co.uk and @thebrokenspine.co.uk for the original #PoemsAbout prompt
Smoke
(For Walter Dillam)
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SP returns to The Harrison in King's Cross next Tuesday evening with a stellar evening of open mic poetry, spoken word performance, music and solidarity, featuring two guest poets: Julie Cheung and @jeffcottrill.bsky.social. MC Pat Flowers. All are welcome! 💚💚
First call for the SP Zoom Party Tuesday 23 June, with the brilliant @secretsoliloquies.bsky.social as featured poet, also featuring folk punk from the wonderful www.instagram.com/SamCastellWard. MC @ajmurraymints.bsky.social Shout if not on our mailing list for the Zoom link and would like to be! ❤️
www.southbankcentre.co.uk/events/poetr... Anyone I know going to be at this poetry festival on the afternoon/evening of Sunday 12 June? 🥰
Poetry International Festival | Southbank Centre
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This Saturday 1-5pm at Museum of Homelessness Raising the Roof in support of communities affected by Hurricane Melissa
This was a very precious evening of poetry and community, most generously hosted. Massive thanks as always to @paulwritespoems.bsky.social - not least, for your own excellent, Orpheus-reimagining, fascist-take-downing set to round off the festival ❤️🤜🤛❤️
Paul@paulwritespoems.bsky.social · 2mo agoAnother super evening of poetry at The Book Bag Open Mic Session 5. Always humbled at the poems shared and appreciate that readers feel comfortable to take risks and experiment 🙏
I am very much looking forward to attending the opening performance, this evening, of this new show from the very wonderful crew at @ourmoh.bsky.social Book now - you will not want to miss this! museumofhomelessness.org/whats-on
What's On | Join Our Community Actions and attend our events and exhibitions — Museum of Homelessness
Upcoming show: Criminal: An Untold History of Homelessness, Resistance and Survival 2026
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