John Adlam 🌈🌍
@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
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In the event of fog
Why would you dream of a tangerine sun in September? One morning you’ll rise and plunge to a moment of caesura – a lurch of your world’s axis – an invisible hand, wresting the wheel from your slackeni...
johnadlampoems.substack.com
I reposted this on Substack this morning - it was published in Snow lit rev 15.16 last month (weblink to the Journal is in the Substack post)
johnadlampoems.substack.com/p/in-the-eve...
johnadlampoems.substack.com/p/in-the-eve...
...no chance of that... Throwaways: the gift that never stops giving ❤️
Morning Friday 🙋♂️
here’s my little “throwaway”
poem for #PoemsAbout #NoFuture
and thank to @alanparrywriter.co.uk
& @thebrokenspine.co.uk
#poetry #poems
#WritingCommunity
here’s hoping everyone everywhere
has lovely weekend 🚶🏼♂️➡️🚶🏻♀️
here’s my little “throwaway”
poem for #PoemsAbout #NoFuture
and thank to @alanparrywriter.co.uk
& @thebrokenspine.co.uk
#poetry #poems
#WritingCommunity
here’s hoping everyone everywhere
has lovely weekend 🚶🏼♂️➡️🚶🏻♀️
November 28, 2025 at 11:43 AM
...no chance of that... Throwaways: the gift that never stops giving ❤️
Reposted by John Adlam 🌈🌍
Our NEW ISSUE featuring 30 remarkable new poems and stunning cover art by printmaker Molly Lemon is LIVE.
You can read it all here: www.dustpoetry.co.uk/issues/categ...
We hope you enjoy this issue and look forward to hearing what you think 🧡✨
You can read it all here: www.dustpoetry.co.uk/issues/categ...
We hope you enjoy this issue and look forward to hearing what you think 🧡✨
Issue 15, Dear World
www.dustpoetry.co.uk
November 22, 2025 at 8:59 AM
Our NEW ISSUE featuring 30 remarkable new poems and stunning cover art by printmaker Molly Lemon is LIVE.
You can read it all here: www.dustpoetry.co.uk/issues/categ...
We hope you enjoy this issue and look forward to hearing what you think 🧡✨
You can read it all here: www.dustpoetry.co.uk/issues/categ...
We hope you enjoy this issue and look forward to hearing what you think 🧡✨
Reposted by John Adlam 🌈🌍
It's apparently another of those pointless Days - this time, World Philosophy Day. So here are some clerihews.
"Potted Philosophers".
#poem #poetry #skypoets #blueskypoets #poetrycommunity #writingcommunity #clerihews #philosophers
"Potted Philosophers".
#poem #poetry #skypoets #blueskypoets #poetrycommunity #writingcommunity #clerihews #philosophers
November 20, 2025 at 3:35 PM
It's apparently another of those pointless Days - this time, World Philosophy Day. So here are some clerihews.
"Potted Philosophers".
#poem #poetry #skypoets #blueskypoets #poetrycommunity #writingcommunity #clerihews #philosophers
"Potted Philosophers".
#poem #poetry #skypoets #blueskypoets #poetrycommunity #writingcommunity #clerihews #philosophers
Thank you for these, @victoriaspires.bsky.social - here are a couple of mine, with particular apologies to Ludwig Wittgenstein, who would have furiously refuted this once-fashionable take on his great book (for him, the metaphysics was where it was at) - no doubt Hegel would also be wincing....🥰
November 20, 2025 at 5:30 PM
Thank you for these, @victoriaspires.bsky.social - here are a couple of mine, with particular apologies to Ludwig Wittgenstein, who would have furiously refuted this once-fashionable take on his great book (for him, the metaphysics was where it was at) - no doubt Hegel would also be wincing....🥰
I reposted this on Substack this morning - it was published in Snow lit rev 15.16 last month (weblink to the Journal is in the Substack post)
johnadlampoems.substack.com/p/in-the-eve...
johnadlampoems.substack.com/p/in-the-eve...
In the event of fog
Why would you dream of a tangerine sun in September? One morning you’ll rise and plunge to a moment of caesura – a lurch of your world’s axis – an invisible hand, wresting the wheel from your slackeni...
johnadlampoems.substack.com
November 19, 2025 at 12:52 PM
I reposted this on Substack this morning - it was published in Snow lit rev 15.16 last month (weblink to the Journal is in the Substack post)
johnadlampoems.substack.com/p/in-the-eve...
johnadlampoems.substack.com/p/in-the-eve...
I am thrilled to the moon and back again to find my poem 'Still life' included in this list (for August 2026). Such a wonderful and inspiring publication and project. Thank you so much! @afterpoetry.com @markantonyowen.com
**CONGRATULATIONS TO ALL!!**
Today, @afterpoetry.com reveals which poems it will publish throughout 2026.
Picking 17 poets from more than 130 submissions was no easy task – so well done to all who made it through selection.
Are you in? Here's where to find out ...
afterpoetry.com/index/poems/...
Today, @afterpoetry.com reveals which poems it will publish throughout 2026.
Picking 17 poets from more than 130 submissions was no easy task – so well done to all who made it through selection.
Are you in? Here's where to find out ...
afterpoetry.com/index/poems/...
All Poems | 2026 | After... Poems inspired by other art
See the full index of ekphrastic poems published by After... in 2026
www.afterpoetry.com
November 18, 2025 at 5:28 PM
I am thrilled to the moon and back again to find my poem 'Still life' included in this list (for August 2026). Such a wonderful and inspiring publication and project. Thank you so much! @afterpoetry.com @markantonyowen.com
#LiftToTheSky
@thebrokenspine.co.uk
Today it must be @thepaulconnolly.bsky.social who lately joined the illustrious ranks of @zoomburst.substack.com 's 'Sixty Odd Poets (and counting!)' substack.com/home/post/p-... and blew us all away at the @blackboughpoetry.bsky.social open mic on Wednesday...👏
@thebrokenspine.co.uk
Today it must be @thepaulconnolly.bsky.social who lately joined the illustrious ranks of @zoomburst.substack.com 's 'Sixty Odd Poets (and counting!)' substack.com/home/post/p-... and blew us all away at the @blackboughpoetry.bsky.social open mic on Wednesday...👏
November 17, 2025 at 9:26 AM
#LiftToTheSky
@thebrokenspine.co.uk
Today it must be @thepaulconnolly.bsky.social who lately joined the illustrious ranks of @zoomburst.substack.com 's 'Sixty Odd Poets (and counting!)' substack.com/home/post/p-... and blew us all away at the @blackboughpoetry.bsky.social open mic on Wednesday...👏
@thebrokenspine.co.uk
Today it must be @thepaulconnolly.bsky.social who lately joined the illustrious ranks of @zoomburst.substack.com 's 'Sixty Odd Poets (and counting!)' substack.com/home/post/p-... and blew us all away at the @blackboughpoetry.bsky.social open mic on Wednesday...👏
Reposted by John Adlam 🌈🌍
It’s #worldprematurityday today so I’m sharing my poem from @hogriverpress.bsky.social #poemsabout #poetsonbluesky
November 17, 2025 at 7:52 AM
It’s #worldprematurityday today so I’m sharing my poem from @hogriverpress.bsky.social #poemsabout #poetsonbluesky
Can't wait to find out how this goes! 🥰
Really looking forward to exploring the haibun form tonight with @johnadlam.bsky.social 's poignant Lares and Penates & @maureenthorson.bsky.social 's equally moving Time Traveller's Haibun: 1989. (Sorry for rubbish pic.) #poetry #poetrycommunity #form #haibun
November 11, 2025 at 7:07 PM
Can't wait to find out how this goes! 🥰
@thebrokenspine.co.uk
Today I #LiftToTheSky The Book of Bogs, edited by Anna Chilvers and @clareshawpoet.bsky.social - which I am proud to have helped crowdfund. It's gorgeous & important in equal measure - deep layers of poetry and prose to warm our winters 🙏❤️
www.littletoller.co.uk/shop/books/l...
Today I #LiftToTheSky The Book of Bogs, edited by Anna Chilvers and @clareshawpoet.bsky.social - which I am proud to have helped crowdfund. It's gorgeous & important in equal measure - deep layers of poetry and prose to warm our winters 🙏❤️
www.littletoller.co.uk/shop/books/l...
The Book of Bogs
This new anthology from over forty writers, including Robert Macfarlane, Amy Liptrot, Alys Fowler and Patti Smith explores peatlands and bogs, and argues for their importance.
www.littletoller.co.uk
November 10, 2025 at 10:53 AM
@thebrokenspine.co.uk
Today I #LiftToTheSky The Book of Bogs, edited by Anna Chilvers and @clareshawpoet.bsky.social - which I am proud to have helped crowdfund. It's gorgeous & important in equal measure - deep layers of poetry and prose to warm our winters 🙏❤️
www.littletoller.co.uk/shop/books/l...
Today I #LiftToTheSky The Book of Bogs, edited by Anna Chilvers and @clareshawpoet.bsky.social - which I am proud to have helped crowdfund. It's gorgeous & important in equal measure - deep layers of poetry and prose to warm our winters 🙏❤️
www.littletoller.co.uk/shop/books/l...
www.justgiving.com/campaign/moh...
Please support this essential work of my comrades at @ourmoh.bsky.social
Please support this essential work of my comrades at @ourmoh.bsky.social
Our Winter Appeal 2025
We are raising £15,000 in this year's Winter Appeal, can you help? Rough sleeping has risen 91% since 2021 and all forms of homelessness are at record highs in London.
We are raising money for essen...
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November 5, 2025 at 1:16 PM
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Please support this essential work of my comrades at @ourmoh.bsky.social
Please support this essential work of my comrades at @ourmoh.bsky.social
Reposted by John Adlam 🌈🌍
The Law of Conservation of Mass, according to Marie Antoinette – Victoria Spires @victoriaspires.bsky.social
atriumpoetry.com/2025/11/04/t...
atriumpoetry.com/2025/11/04/t...
The Law of Conservation of Mass, according to Marie Antoinette – Victoria Spires
The Law of Conservation of Mass, according to Marie Antoinette . . Victoria Spires is published in Berlin Lit & The London Magazine. She has been commended/shortlisted in: Ledbury, TPW Prize, A…
atriumpoetry.com
November 4, 2025 at 8:12 AM
The Law of Conservation of Mass, according to Marie Antoinette – Victoria Spires @victoriaspires.bsky.social
atriumpoetry.com/2025/11/04/t...
atriumpoetry.com/2025/11/04/t...
...shrubbery...❤️❤️
morning Friday here’s my little “throwaway” poem for #PoemsAbout #Blood and thanks to
@alanparrywriter.co.uk
@thebrokenspine.co.uk
#poets #poetry
and thank you for stopping here and reading 🙋♂️
have a great weekend everyone everywhere 🚶🏽➡️🚮
@alanparrywriter.co.uk
@thebrokenspine.co.uk
#poets #poetry
and thank you for stopping here and reading 🙋♂️
have a great weekend everyone everywhere 🚶🏽➡️🚮
October 31, 2025 at 10:13 AM
...shrubbery...❤️❤️
#WednesdayWIPs
@thebrokenspine.co.uk
@alanparrywriter.co.uk
Spent some time yesterday revising two poems that hadn't quite been working, then open mic with Survivors' Poetry, and now I seem somehow to be headed West:
"Somewhere between Amarillo and Tucumcari / a State Trooper pulls me over..." 🤔🤷
@thebrokenspine.co.uk
@alanparrywriter.co.uk
Spent some time yesterday revising two poems that hadn't quite been working, then open mic with Survivors' Poetry, and now I seem somehow to be headed West:
"Somewhere between Amarillo and Tucumcari / a State Trooper pulls me over..." 🤔🤷
October 29, 2025 at 12:21 PM
#WednesdayWIPs
@thebrokenspine.co.uk
@alanparrywriter.co.uk
Spent some time yesterday revising two poems that hadn't quite been working, then open mic with Survivors' Poetry, and now I seem somehow to be headed West:
"Somewhere between Amarillo and Tucumcari / a State Trooper pulls me over..." 🤔🤷
@thebrokenspine.co.uk
@alanparrywriter.co.uk
Spent some time yesterday revising two poems that hadn't quite been working, then open mic with Survivors' Poetry, and now I seem somehow to be headed West:
"Somewhere between Amarillo and Tucumcari / a State Trooper pulls me over..." 🤔🤷
Reposted by John Adlam 🌈🌍
Hey #promptcombo crew 👋🏼
Thanks to @thewombwellrainbow.bsky.social for hosting last week. This week's prompt is #DreamLogic.
Tag me & use the #. Replies will be a little sporadic initially, but I know the community will be out in force, supporting each other as ever ☺️
Thanks to @thewombwellrainbow.bsky.social for hosting last week. This week's prompt is #DreamLogic.
Tag me & use the #. Replies will be a little sporadic initially, but I know the community will be out in force, supporting each other as ever ☺️
October 27, 2025 at 7:02 AM
Hey #promptcombo crew 👋🏼
Thanks to @thewombwellrainbow.bsky.social for hosting last week. This week's prompt is #DreamLogic.
Tag me & use the #. Replies will be a little sporadic initially, but I know the community will be out in force, supporting each other as ever ☺️
Thanks to @thewombwellrainbow.bsky.social for hosting last week. This week's prompt is #DreamLogic.
Tag me & use the #. Replies will be a little sporadic initially, but I know the community will be out in force, supporting each other as ever ☺️
These were truly exceptional readings by @thepaulconnolly.bsky.social yesterday evening 👏👏👏
Brilliant @blackboughpoetry.bsky.social open mic last night with featured poet @saraswatinagpal.bsky.social & great MC @matthewmcsmith.bsky.social I'll put my poems & recordings in the thread👇 This one is Branscombe Coast, published by @indigodreamspub.bsky.social in The Dawntreader #poetrycommunity
October 27, 2025 at 10:00 AM
These were truly exceptional readings by @thepaulconnolly.bsky.social yesterday evening 👏👏👏
Reposted by John Adlam 🌈🌍
October 27, 2025 at 8:02 AM
open.spotify.com/track/5MIjLr...
"And when you kissed Robert Mitchum / Gee, but I thought you'd never catch him"
#PoemsAbout #BurnForTheCamera
@thebrokenspine.co.uk
I didn't really click at all with this week's prompt and therefore especially impressed with all that you all have made of it! 🙏❤️🙏
"And when you kissed Robert Mitchum / Gee, but I thought you'd never catch him"
#PoemsAbout #BurnForTheCamera
@thebrokenspine.co.uk
I didn't really click at all with this week's prompt and therefore especially impressed with all that you all have made of it! 🙏❤️🙏
New Age - Full Length Version; 2015 Remaster
open.spotify.com
October 24, 2025 at 2:32 PM
open.spotify.com/track/5MIjLr...
"And when you kissed Robert Mitchum / Gee, but I thought you'd never catch him"
#PoemsAbout #BurnForTheCamera
@thebrokenspine.co.uk
I didn't really click at all with this week's prompt and therefore especially impressed with all that you all have made of it! 🙏❤️🙏
"And when you kissed Robert Mitchum / Gee, but I thought you'd never catch him"
#PoemsAbout #BurnForTheCamera
@thebrokenspine.co.uk
I didn't really click at all with this week's prompt and therefore especially impressed with all that you all have made of it! 🙏❤️🙏
Oh dear a very quiet day for #WednesdayWIPs @thebrokenspine.co.uk
I have been kicking around something outdoorsy with trees and that, and getting ready meantime for this evening's webinar from @northseapoets.bsky.social on 'Writing with Bishop' 🥰
I have been kicking around something outdoorsy with trees and that, and getting ready meantime for this evening's webinar from @northseapoets.bsky.social on 'Writing with Bishop' 🥰
October 22, 2025 at 6:33 PM
Oh dear a very quiet day for #WednesdayWIPs @thebrokenspine.co.uk
I have been kicking around something outdoorsy with trees and that, and getting ready meantime for this evening's webinar from @northseapoets.bsky.social on 'Writing with Bishop' 🥰
I have been kicking around something outdoorsy with trees and that, and getting ready meantime for this evening's webinar from @northseapoets.bsky.social on 'Writing with Bishop' 🥰
I wholly forgot #LiftToTheSky last week! I meant to and now do raise up the learned and irrepressible @zoomburst.substack.com, capo of the long-running Sixty Odd Poets, who did a fab gig at the Colony Room, downstairs at Ziggy Green, Saturday before last. A joy to behold! 🙏❤️
@thebrokenspine.co.uk
@thebrokenspine.co.uk
October 20, 2025 at 12:04 PM
I wholly forgot #LiftToTheSky last week! I meant to and now do raise up the learned and irrepressible @zoomburst.substack.com, capo of the long-running Sixty Odd Poets, who did a fab gig at the Colony Room, downstairs at Ziggy Green, Saturday before last. A joy to behold! 🙏❤️
@thebrokenspine.co.uk
@thebrokenspine.co.uk
This is *fantastic*, do listen to the recording ❤️
#PoemsAbout #BreakTheMould I know most folks post new work of their own, but here's a 50-year-old poem written by my late wife Renée Robbins in her youth that I just rediscovered this Fall. Link to my fresh performance of it here: frankhudson.org/2025/10/14/i...
October 17, 2025 at 5:22 PM
This is *fantastic*, do listen to the recording ❤️
This might even be my all-time favourite of yours, Roger...❤️
afternoon Friday hope you’re well
here’s my little “throwaway” poem
for #PoemsAbout #BreaktheMould
and thanks once again Alan 🙋♂️
@alanparrywriter.co.uk
@thebrokenspine.co.uk
#poetsonBlueSky
#WritingCommunity
enjoy your weekend everyone everywhere 🚶🏽➡️
here’s my little “throwaway” poem
for #PoemsAbout #BreaktheMould
and thanks once again Alan 🙋♂️
@alanparrywriter.co.uk
@thebrokenspine.co.uk
#poetsonBlueSky
#WritingCommunity
enjoy your weekend everyone everywhere 🚶🏽➡️
October 17, 2025 at 2:08 PM
This might even be my all-time favourite of yours, Roger...❤️
Reposted by John Adlam 🌈🌍
For this week's #PoemsAbout #BreakTheMould with thanks to host @alanparrywriter.co.uk @thebrokenspine.co.uk and everyone taking part.
October 17, 2025 at 5:56 AM
For this week's #PoemsAbout #BreakTheMould with thanks to host @alanparrywriter.co.uk @thebrokenspine.co.uk and everyone taking part.
#PoemsAbout #BreakTheMould
@thebrokenspine.co.uk @karenpgonzalez.bsky.social @alanparrywriter.co.uk
"I reckon I broke the mould": this older poem of mine, first published in @asylummagazine.bsky.social, is right on theme. Also here with brief commentary:🙏 johnadlampoems.substack.com/p/the-death-...
@thebrokenspine.co.uk @karenpgonzalez.bsky.social @alanparrywriter.co.uk
"I reckon I broke the mould": this older poem of mine, first published in @asylummagazine.bsky.social, is right on theme. Also here with brief commentary:🙏 johnadlampoems.substack.com/p/the-death-...
October 17, 2025 at 8:08 AM
#PoemsAbout #BreakTheMould
@thebrokenspine.co.uk @karenpgonzalez.bsky.social @alanparrywriter.co.uk
"I reckon I broke the mould": this older poem of mine, first published in @asylummagazine.bsky.social, is right on theme. Also here with brief commentary:🙏 johnadlampoems.substack.com/p/the-death-...
@thebrokenspine.co.uk @karenpgonzalez.bsky.social @alanparrywriter.co.uk
"I reckon I broke the mould": this older poem of mine, first published in @asylummagazine.bsky.social, is right on theme. Also here with brief commentary:🙏 johnadlampoems.substack.com/p/the-death-...