John Adlam 🌈🌍
@johnadlam.bsky.social
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John Adlam 🌈🌍
@johnadlam.bsky.social
· Dec 16
I am very pleased & proud to say that I am now officially a Trustee of @survivors-poetry.bsky.social, which exists to promote poetry by survivors - to support survivor poets - to challenge social & cultural definitions of poets and poetry - to make connections between creativity and mental health ❤️
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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...
Poets and Poetry
survivorspoetry.co.uk
January 24, 2026 at 11:19 AM
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
@secretsoliloquies.bsky.social
January 23, 2026 at 8:49 PM
Yay, look what just arrived! 🥰
@secretsoliloquies.bsky.social
@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 🥰
January 21, 2026 at 8:14 PM
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! 🥰
Over the next few days I will be sending out emails in response to submissions for the Unwhispered Legacy anthology.
I’ve read so many wonderful pieces from such a high volume of submissions, it’s been really difficult to choose.
🙏
I’ve read so many wonderful pieces from such a high volume of submissions, it’s been really difficult to choose.
🙏
January 18, 2026 at 8:01 PM
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! 🥰
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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 🙏🏼
Zoom Party on Tuesday 27th January, with MC Pat Flowers, and two brilliant headliners Lilac Underworld and Lee Campbell. If you don't have the Zoom link drop us a line to [email protected]
Doors open 7.00 to say hi, sign in for open mic, show starts 7.30
See you in the Zoom Room! ☺️
Doors open 7.00 to say hi, sign in for open mic, show starts 7.30
See you in the Zoom Room! ☺️
January 16, 2026 at 3:35 PM
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..🥰
Happy New Year to all our friends & followers! Coming up, our first gig of 2026 at The Harrison. Featured poet is "rude, smutty and comical" Heather Mary Sullivan, guest musician Walthamstow's finest Emma Scarr. MC Carl Chamberlain. Poets & musicians from the floor warmly welcome! Love & solidarity🎆
January 13, 2026 at 2:57 PM
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..🥰
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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...
Hey you.
Tell your British friends: my 2026 U.K. tour is on for this spring.
Dates so far:
May 31: Poetry in the Park, Aberdeen
June 9: @survivors-poetry.bsky.social, London
June 11: Worcester Litfest, Worcester
(also planning to hit the open mic at Fire & Dust in Coventry on June 4)
Tell your British friends: my 2026 U.K. tour is on for this spring.
Dates so far:
May 31: Poetry in the Park, Aberdeen
June 9: @survivors-poetry.bsky.social, London
June 11: Worcester Litfest, Worcester
(also planning to hit the open mic at Fire & Dust in Coventry on June 4)
January 12, 2026 at 10:25 PM
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...
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...
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Doubt sidled quietly through the doorway like a late arrival – two-faced, like January, settling in dank and chill between us.
open.substack.com
January 8, 2026 at 10:35 AM
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...
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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...
This issue is going to blow your socks off and send your rockets into space!
www.frazzledlit.com/p/issue-4-la...
January 8, 2026 at 9:15 AM
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...
This issue is going to blow your socks off and send your rockets into space!
www.frazzledlit.com/p/issue-4-la...
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🗞 "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...
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...
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.
www.bigissue.com
January 7, 2026 at 1:36 PM
🗞 "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...
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...
VERY true this 😠
When a Vice Chancellor forgets that a university is about more than just satisfying the labour demands of the market, they simply side with the philistine attacks on higher education
The shallow materialism of this article, yet another graduate saying there are ‘too many graduates’. Vomit-inducing.
The shallow materialism of this article, yet another graduate saying there are ‘too many graduates’. Vomit-inducing.
UK university degree no longer ‘passport to social mobility’, says King’s vice-chancellor
Prof Shitij Kapur says there are too many graduates and degree is now just a ‘visa’ to enter professional world
www.theguardian.com
January 3, 2026 at 12:13 PM
VERY true this 😠
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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 🙏🤜🤛🙏
January 3, 2026 at 12:09 PM
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 🙏🤜🤛🙏
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Richard Wilson's '20:50' installation of recycled engine oil is showing at the Saatchi gallery, as devastating and bleakly beautiful as ever (we first saw it at County Hall in 2003). Something very strange and uncanny and disturbing happens to light itself, around this installation...😞
January 1, 2026 at 2:31 PM
Richard Wilson's '20:50' installation of recycled engine oil is showing at the Saatchi gallery, as devastating and bleakly beautiful as ever (we first saw it at County Hall in 2003). Something very strange and uncanny and disturbing happens to light itself, around this installation...😞
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Happy New Year to all our friends & followers! Coming up, our first gig of 2026 at The Harrison. Featured poet is "rude, smutty and comical" Heather Mary Sullivan, guest musician Walthamstow's finest Emma Scarr. MC Carl Chamberlain. Poets & musicians from the floor warmly welcome! Love & solidarity🎆
December 31, 2025 at 6:51 PM
Happy New Year to all our friends & followers! Coming up, our first gig of 2026 at The Harrison. Featured poet is "rude, smutty and comical" Heather Mary Sullivan, guest musician Walthamstow's finest Emma Scarr. MC Carl Chamberlain. Poets & musicians from the floor warmly welcome! Love & solidarity🎆
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I have opened this with immediate effect, submit people! Those waiting on responses ought to get them this week, for past calls.
Submissions are open.
Poetry that remembers.
That mourns.
That refuses to let go.
Read the call carefully.
Take your time.
Send the work that needs to exist.
thebrokenspine.co.uk/2025/06/14/c...
Poetry that remembers.
That mourns.
That refuses to let go.
Read the call carefully.
Take your time.
Send the work that needs to exist.
thebrokenspine.co.uk/2025/06/14/c...
Call for Submissions: Poetry That Remembers, Mourns, and Refuses to Let Go - The Broken Spine
Submissions Open Throughout January 2026 | Publication Later That Year
thebrokenspine.co.uk
December 31, 2025 at 5:11 PM
I have opened this with immediate effect, submit people! Those waiting on responses ought to get them this week, for past calls.
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Dates for your new diary:
December 29, 2025 at 2:33 PM
Dates for your new diary:
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The poetry community built this award. It was never about me—it was always about funding a career-changing prize for poets. Facilitated by @AlanParry83.bsky.social, but made possible #ByWritersForWriters. Last chance to give. 🔗
A Poetry Award That Puts Poets First – And You Can Make It Happen - The Broken Spine
Poets deserve more than empty prestige. They deserve real recognition, real opportunities, and real support. That is why I am launching The Broken Spine
shorturl.at
December 26, 2025 at 2:14 PM
The poetry community built this award. It was never about me—it was always about funding a career-changing prize for poets. Facilitated by @AlanParry83.bsky.social, but made possible #ByWritersForWriters. Last chance to give. 🔗
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First announcement for our first event of 2026...
December 28, 2025 at 1:53 PM
First announcement for our first event of 2026...
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These are our two anthologies of survivor poetry:
From dark to light (1992) ISBN 1 874595 00 3
Under the asylum tree (1995) ISBN 1 874595 01 1
We'd love to hear from anyone who has copies of these, to find out what the books mean to you and which poems are your favourites...
survivorspoetry.co.uk
From dark to light (1992) ISBN 1 874595 00 3
Under the asylum tree (1995) ISBN 1 874595 01 1
We'd love to hear from anyone who has copies of these, to find out what the books mean to you and which poems are your favourites...
survivorspoetry.co.uk
December 25, 2025 at 1:15 AM
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The EPSTEIN Files are a much quicker read than I expected.
December 20, 2025 at 8:12 PM
The EPSTEIN Files are a much quicker read than I expected.
...every home should have one...🥰
These are our two anthologies of survivor poetry:
From dark to light (1992) ISBN 1 874595 00 3
Under the asylum tree (1995) ISBN 1 874595 01 1
We'd love to hear from anyone who has copies of these, to find out what the books mean to you and which poems are your favourites...
survivorspoetry.co.uk
From dark to light (1992) ISBN 1 874595 00 3
Under the asylum tree (1995) ISBN 1 874595 01 1
We'd love to hear from anyone who has copies of these, to find out what the books mean to you and which poems are your favourites...
survivorspoetry.co.uk
December 17, 2025 at 4:33 PM
...every home should have one...🥰
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#PoemsAbout #Money drops Friday.
Write the debt buried under glitter.
Buy-now-regret-later.
Bank balance versus belonging.
Tag it right. Don’t post early. Use Alt Text. Get prompts: shorturl.at/0Xm7A
Write the debt buried under glitter.
Buy-now-regret-later.
Bank balance versus belonging.
Tag it right. Don’t post early. Use Alt Text. Get prompts: shorturl.at/0Xm7A
December 16, 2025 at 4:59 PM
#PoemsAbout #Money drops Friday.
Write the debt buried under glitter.
Buy-now-regret-later.
Bank balance versus belonging.
Tag it right. Don’t post early. Use Alt Text. Get prompts: shorturl.at/0Xm7A
Write the debt buried under glitter.
Buy-now-regret-later.
Bank balance versus belonging.
Tag it right. Don’t post early. Use Alt Text. Get prompts: shorturl.at/0Xm7A
I am very pleased & proud to say that I am now officially a Trustee of @survivors-poetry.bsky.social, which exists to promote poetry by survivors - to support survivor poets - to challenge social & cultural definitions of poets and poetry - to make connections between creativity and mental health ❤️
December 16, 2025 at 5:21 PM
I am very pleased & proud to say that I am now officially a Trustee of @survivors-poetry.bsky.social, which exists to promote poetry by survivors - to support survivor poets - to challenge social & cultural definitions of poets and poetry - to make connections between creativity and mental health ❤️
My copy of this new book has just landed 🥳. My chapter with Chris Scanlon is on page 101. @tanyamoore.bsky.social + Claudia Megele, many thanks for having us! Human beings in complex systems are complex human beings and need human leadership (and then some human followership can also be in the mix!)
December 11, 2025 at 4:06 PM
My copy of this new book has just landed 🥳. My chapter with Chris Scanlon is on page 101. @tanyamoore.bsky.social + Claudia Megele, many thanks for having us! Human beings in complex systems are complex human beings and need human leadership (and then some human followership can also be in the mix!)