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John Adlam 🌈🌍 @johnadlam.bsky.social · Jul 3

The 4th annual Henderson Heritage Group 'Experiences in Communities' public event: Friday 10 October 6-8pm
THE event of the autumn in the world of #democratictherapeuticcommunities and #activistresearch - tickets available now! ❤️‍🔥 #survivor #practicesofequality
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1440614559... ❤️

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John Adlam 🌈🌍 @johnadlam.bsky.social · 10h

#WednesayWIPs posting the above about the delivery Chirico poem seems to have opened the sluice, if not the floodgates, to a wee ekphrastic excursion...so there you go...work in progress...🥰

John Adlam 🌈🌍 @johnadlam.bsky.social · 12h

It sounds very difficult...😟

John Adlam 🌈🌍 @johnadlam.bsky.social · 17h

#WednesdayWIPs
@thebrokenspine.co.uk

'The Uncertainty of the Poet' by Giorgio de Chirico (part of the open collection at Tate Modern)

Seemed apt for this space! 🥰

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The Broken Spine @thebrokenspine.co.uk · 1d

#PoemsAbout #ImperfectMe kicks off Friday. Think fractured reflections, messy middles, scars that still speak. Draft, hold, then post from Friday. Use Alt Text. Tag properly or we won’t find it. For inbox prompts every Saturday: shorturl.at/0Xm7A

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John Adlam 🌈🌍 @johnadlam.bsky.social · 1d

Oh my there is SO MUCH POETRY in this collection (at the Royal Festival Hall), and SO little time... 😆❤️

John Adlam 🌈🌍 @johnadlam.bsky.social · 4d

#bellends 👏👏👏

roger waldron @throwawayreg.bsky.social · 5d

Afternoon Friday here’s my little “throwaway” poem for #PoemsAbout #Mannequin and hope it fits the bill and thank @alanparrywriter.co.uk
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@poetsonbluesky.bsky.social
hope everyone everywhere enjoys their weekend 🚶🏼‍♂️‍➡️🚶🏻‍♀️

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Tanya Moore @tanyamoore.bsky.social · 5d

‘To be disappointed is human. It is also human to be disappointed’; sneak preview of the 1st line of John & Chris’ BRILLIANT chapter on the creative mobilisation of disappointment. Perfectly positioned on p.101. No disappointment there 😊

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John Adlam 🌈🌍 @johnadlam.bsky.social · 5d

🤣🥰🤣 I am DELIGHTED to find that we are on page 101 🤜🤛

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John Adlam 🌈🌍 @johnadlam.bsky.social · 5d

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John Adlam 🌈🌍 @johnadlam.bsky.social · 5d

I am proud to have contributed a co-written chapter with Chris Scanlon to this new and essential book edited by @tanyamoore.bsky.social and Claudia Megele...due to be published 21 November...🥰
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Human Leadership

How can you lead with compassion, authenticity and success - whether you're leading a team or a complex organization?This wide-ranging collection pulls together leading innovation experts to share the...

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John Adlam 🌈🌍 @johnadlam.bsky.social · 5d

Listen I definitely propose we should share the feedback among the three of us 🥰

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Atrium @atriumpoetry.bsky.social · 5d

Sonnet for Perimenopause – Victoria Spires @victoriaspires.bsky.social

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Sonnet for Perimenopause – Victoria Spires

Sonnet for Perimenopause . . Victoria Spires is published in Berlin Lit & The London Magazine. She has been commended/shortlisted in: Ledbury, TPW Prize, Aesthetica Arts, Artemesia Arts, Plough…

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The Broken Spine @thebrokenspine.co.uk · 7d

Something Gothic this way comes… Submissions are OPEN for The Havisham Steps: Modern Gothic Poetry. We want poems of neon dread, fractured love, haunted minds.

Closing date: October 31st

#PoetrySubmissions #SubmissionWindow #TheHavishamSteps #ModernGothicPoetry

Something Gothic This Way Comes: Submit to The Havisham Steps: Modern Gothic Poetry - The Broken Spine

Submissions Open Throughout October 2025 | Publication in 2026

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John Adlam 🌈🌍 @johnadlam.bsky.social · 7d

This just arrived today - I have three poems included - clustered together as a mini-section of the Journal under the heading "At Gordium: of Fog and Storm and Hubris". I am very excited! Massive thanks to Anthony Barnett and Ian Brinton for all that they do abar.net/snow.pdf

John Adlam 🌈🌍 @johnadlam.bsky.social · 7d

Thank you for a wonderful response Ronnie. Jethro Tull! That's an amazing and illuminating association 🙏🥰🙏

John Adlam 🌈🌍 @johnadlam.bsky.social · 7d

#WednesdayWIPs
@thebrokenspine.co.uk
That rollercoaster ride when you dig out a poem you thought might work for a call for contributions, find that it won't do at all, rewrite the thing in a flurry of seeing suddenly where it should have gone all along - then worry you've made it worse....anyone? 🤔🥰

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John Adlam 🌈🌍 @johnadlam.bsky.social · 8d

Thank you so much, Rachel! Cool! I haven't slept so close as you did, from what you say, but I was in one of the medium rise tower blocks at Loughborough Junction for a while, and have walked from the Ritzy to the Hermit's Cave and back again on many a moonless night...🥰

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John Adlam 🌈🌍 @johnadlam.bsky.social · 8d

A week and a half to go! We have a great audience signed up but there are still places available...come join the conversation and help us join new ones...👇👇🙏🥰

John Adlam 🌈🌍 @johnadlam.bsky.social · Jul 3

John Adlam 🌈🌍 @johnadlam.bsky.social · 8d

Hey Ronnie I must apologise - I responded to the prompt before I made my way down the feed and saw that you also had conjured a street musician! I love it ❤️

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John Adlam 🌈🌍 @johnadlam.bsky.social · 8d

@emteepoetry.bsky.social that is wonderful feedback, so kind of you! I am very happy this poem landed so well. I admit sometimes I have to look up some of the words I use even after I've used them, for my memory is no longer as I remember it...brevity & clarity - a winning but elusive combination!🙏🥰

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John Adlam 🌈🌍 @johnadlam.bsky.social · 8d

@rfsmith.bsky.social
#promptcombo #characters
Thank you for this lovely prompt. This is one of an occasional series of poems (revised; first posted for #PoemsAbout), touching on legends of figure of Diogenes - a character for our times... South London is also a character in my writing, I think...😊🙏

Cadenza

Marooned along Coldharbour Lane,
the shipwrecked street philosopher

sorties doggedly from the colonnade
that shelters his paperscrap Academy.

He raises his saxophone voice
to the dome of the Camberwell night -

summoning the perfervid blue
cadenzas of his storytelling

from the deep storm cellars
of his vagabond soul.

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John Adlam 🌈🌍 @johnadlam.bsky.social · 9d

@thebrokenspine.co.uk
A #LiftToTheSky for this wonder-filled & venerable anthology. Choice moments so far: "...the other hand fingered the pistol. My asshole / dropped out / and crawled all the way back to El Paso" (Paul Blackburn); "Everything is water / if you look long enough" (Robert Creeley) ❤️

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John Adlam 🌈🌍 @johnadlam.bsky.social · 10d

New post yesterday to my 'John Adlam Poems' substack - I read this out at the @asylummagazine.bsky.social Zoom launch event for their Autumn issue 32(3)...
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A psychiatric hospital is not a factory

The technocrats are taking over the asylums with batteries of nostrums – capitalising the castle, parcelling up the parklands for gymnasiums and luxury flats – whilom mercenaries marching on to market...

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Mike O’Brien @zoomburst.substack.com · 15d

Three upcoming #poetry events
"Soixante Neuf" is launched @ the Fox Gallery in Mexborough, South Yorkshire on 28 Sep at 3pm
"Ourselves Reflected Back" is launched @ the Rotherham Civic Theatre on 2nd Oct at 7pm
And "Up North, Down South" is on Sat 11 Oct at 8pm @ Soho, London
See you there?

The covers of Sixty Odd Poets - Soixante Neuf, and Ourselves Reflected Back, two Poetry Anthologies with imminent launches, along with a Poster for a forthcoming evening of poetry and Music at Colony Room Green, Soho.

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John Adlam 🌈🌍 @johnadlam.bsky.social · 11d

Perfect! 😆