Adam Neikirk
@adamneikirk.bsky.social
Poet, Scholar, Pantisocrat
2025 ECF BARS/Wordsworth Grasmere
"Writing like Wordsworth" & "Romantic Poets in the Wild"
Verse culture(?) // Creative Liaison @ bars.bsky.social
2025 ECF BARS/Wordsworth Grasmere
"Writing like Wordsworth" & "Romantic Poets in the Wild"
Verse culture(?) // Creative Liaison @ bars.bsky.social
Pinned
Just a spooooky reminder that this panel session call is up on the BARS 2026 conference website--get in touch if you'd like to take part! www.bars.ac.uk/blog/?p=6199
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.
Quickly changing the session title/theme to reflect this. I'm doing it at the very last moment, in the spur of the moment.
November 25, 2025 at 1:51 PM
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.
Quickly changing the session title/theme to reflect this. I'm doing it at the very last moment, in the spur of the moment.
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5 days to submit! Scribble down those ideas! ✍️
Reminder: BARS Biennial International Conference 2026: Romantic Retrospection (University of Birmingham) – Call for Papers Deadline 30 November 2025
Updates on session calls & bursaries, plus details of how to submit at the links:
www.bars.ac.uk/blog/?p=6101
www.birmingham.ac.uk/events/arts-...
Updates on session calls & bursaries, plus details of how to submit at the links:
www.bars.ac.uk/blog/?p=6101
www.birmingham.ac.uk/events/arts-...
November 25, 2025 at 12:01 PM
5 days to submit! Scribble down those ideas! ✍️
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🌲'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...
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...
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 ...
doi.org
November 25, 2025 at 8:42 AM
🌲'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...
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! ☄️
🎉 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
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
BARS Digital Event: “Romantic Creativity” Roundtable – BARS Blog
www.bars.ac.uk
November 25, 2025 at 8:37 AM
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”?
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”?
November 18, 2025 at 2:51 PM
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”?
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... 😄
Reminder: BARS Biennial International Conference 2026: Romantic Retrospection (University of Birmingham) – Call for Papers Deadline 30 November 2025
Updates on session calls & bursaries, plus details of how to submit at the links:
www.bars.ac.uk/blog/?p=6101
www.birmingham.ac.uk/events/arts-...
Updates on session calls & bursaries, plus details of how to submit at the links:
www.bars.ac.uk/blog/?p=6101
www.birmingham.ac.uk/events/arts-...
November 18, 2025 at 2:28 PM
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?
November 17, 2025 at 2:07 PM
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, . . .
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, . . .
November 15, 2025 at 3:41 PM
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, . . .
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, . . .
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...
Also a reminder to myself to write my abstract for my own creative-critical paper...
Just a spooooky reminder that this panel session call is up on the BARS 2026 conference website--get in touch if you'd like to take part! www.bars.ac.uk/blog/?p=6199
November 14, 2025 at 4:03 PM
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...
Also a reminder to myself to write my abstract for my own creative-critical paper...
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preparing a class on animal histories
November 10, 2025 at 7:20 PM
preparing a class on animal histories
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Forced myself to socialize yesterday by going to a paint night fundraiser.
November 10, 2025 at 2:18 AM
Forced myself to socialize yesterday by going to a paint night fundraiser.
Don’t forget: you can do it!
November 10, 2025 at 1:35 PM
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!
November 9, 2025 at 9:53 AM
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!
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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...
‘Shelley’s Anni Mirabiles: The Complete Poetry of Percy Bysshe Shelley,’ Volume 4 — K-SAA
The K-SAA is excited to share about this digital event celebrating the publication of Volume IV of the Johns Hopkins University Press edition of Percy Bysshe Shelley’s poetry! Please find more informa...
www.k-saa.org
November 8, 2025 at 8:05 PM
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...
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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
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.”
www.teenvogue.com
November 5, 2025 at 2:14 PM
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
November 5, 2025 at 11:59 AM
I didn't create this conference poster but I wish I had
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Call for Contributors: Volcanic Materiality: Cultural Phenomena in the Age of the Anthropocene, edited by Dewey H. Hall.
Abstracts of 2-300 words due by 30th November 2025.
www.bars.ac.uk/blog/?p=6205
Abstracts of 2-300 words due by 30th November 2025.
www.bars.ac.uk/blog/?p=6205
Call for Contributors: Volcanic Materiality – BARS Blog
www.bars.ac.uk
November 3, 2025 at 12:06 PM
Call for Contributors: Volcanic Materiality: Cultural Phenomena in the Age of the Anthropocene, edited by Dewey H. Hall.
Abstracts of 2-300 words due by 30th November 2025.
www.bars.ac.uk/blog/?p=6205
Abstracts of 2-300 words due by 30th November 2025.
www.bars.ac.uk/blog/?p=6205
And there I felt thee! – on that sea-cliff’s verge,
Whose pines, scarce travelled by the breeze above,
Had made one murmur with the distant surge!
Yes, while I stood and gazed, my temples bare,
And shot my being through earth, sea, and air,
Possessing all things with intensest love
Whose pines, scarce travelled by the breeze above,
Had made one murmur with the distant surge!
Yes, while I stood and gazed, my temples bare,
And shot my being through earth, sea, and air,
Possessing all things with intensest love
November 3, 2025 at 11:50 AM
And there I felt thee! – on that sea-cliff’s verge,
Whose pines, scarce travelled by the breeze above,
Had made one murmur with the distant surge!
Yes, while I stood and gazed, my temples bare,
And shot my being through earth, sea, and air,
Possessing all things with intensest love
Whose pines, scarce travelled by the breeze above,
Had made one murmur with the distant surge!
Yes, while I stood and gazed, my temples bare,
And shot my being through earth, sea, and air,
Possessing all things with intensest love
Circled around to the beginning of the book today to fill some things in. Sometimes it feels like any given topic can be infinitely subdivided. No wonder Coleridge never finished any of his!
November 1, 2025 at 1:51 PM
Circled around to the beginning of the book today to fill some things in. Sometimes it feels like any given topic can be infinitely subdivided. No wonder Coleridge never finished any of his!
So many cool Keats House events coming up that I can't go to :(
November 1, 2025 at 1:47 PM
So many cool Keats House events coming up that I can't go to :(
Just a spooooky reminder that this panel session call is up on the BARS 2026 conference website--get in touch if you'd like to take part! www.bars.ac.uk/blog/?p=6199
October 31, 2025 at 4:31 PM
Just a spooooky reminder that this panel session call is up on the BARS 2026 conference website--get in touch if you'd like to take part! www.bars.ac.uk/blog/?p=6199
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This is TONIGHT!!! 7pm GMT!! Come talk Romantic climate and catastrophe with us 🌋🌪️🌧️🌩️⛅️
Upcoming BARS Digital Event: Volcanic Romanticism (30 Oct 7pm UK time)
Presentations from Dilara Kalkan, Katerina Liontou, Chloe Melvin, and Kate Nankervis on aspects of the Diodata Circle, weather, climate, and volcanic sublimity
Free tickets on Eventbrite: www.eventbrite.com/e/bars-digit...
Presentations from Dilara Kalkan, Katerina Liontou, Chloe Melvin, and Kate Nankervis on aspects of the Diodata Circle, weather, climate, and volcanic sublimity
Free tickets on Eventbrite: www.eventbrite.com/e/bars-digit...
BARS Digital Events: Volcanic Romanticism
Exploring the Diodatic Circle, the volcanic as a sublime, apocalyptic force, and how this inflected their powerful visions of the future.
www.eventbrite.com
October 30, 2025 at 1:46 PM
This is TONIGHT!!! 7pm GMT!! Come talk Romantic climate and catastrophe with us 🌋🌪️🌧️🌩️⛅️
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Looking forward to delivering the Annual Dr Williams's Lecture tomorrow at Senate House, London: Anna Laetitia Barbauld and Dissenting Hymns 🗣️🗣️🗣️
📢 Bookings are open for the 2025 Annual Dr Williams’s Lecture, delivered by our own Prof Mary Fairclough @maryfairclough.bsky.social at CECS & @uoyenglishrl.bsky.social
Book your place for this exciting event on 29 October at the School of Advanced Study, London:
www.sas.ac.uk/news-events/...
Book your place for this exciting event on 29 October at the School of Advanced Study, London:
www.sas.ac.uk/news-events/...
Annual Dr Williams’s Lecture 2025 | Anna Laetita Barbauld and Dissenting Hymns
www.sas.ac.uk
October 28, 2025 at 1:12 PM
Looking forward to delivering the Annual Dr Williams's Lecture tomorrow at Senate House, London: Anna Laetitia Barbauld and Dissenting Hymns 🗣️🗣️🗣️
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October 28, 2025 at 1:25 PM
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The main stream to be aware of this week is Friday, when I'll read The Rime of the Ancient Mariner (1900 GMT/UTC).
October 27, 2025 at 8:40 PM
The main stream to be aware of this week is Friday, when I'll read The Rime of the Ancient Mariner (1900 GMT/UTC).