www.justgiving.com/campaign/moh... Please support this essential work of my comrades at @ourmoh.bsky.social

The Law of Conservation of Mass, according to Marie Antoinette – Victoria Spires @victoriaspires.bsky.social atriumpoetry.com/2025/11/04/t...

...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..." 🤔🤷

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 ☺️

These were truly exceptional readings by @thepaulconnolly.bsky.social yesterday evening 👏👏👏

@saraswatinagpal.bsky.social at our #poetry #spokenword #openmic last night!

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! 🙏❤️🙏

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 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

This is *fantastic*, do listen to the recording ❤️

This might even be my all-time favourite of yours, Roger...❤️

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-...

#WednesdayWIPs @thebrokenspine.co.uk Did an unusual thing y'day, scribbled something on the tube in memoriam Lou Reed, read it right away, in roughly v.2 form, at the Survivor Poetry open mic. Felt like it landed well, now fine tuning. Title was wrong: not 'Me and Lou', natch, but 'Lou and I'...🥰

Another great evening of open mic with Survivors Poetry at the Harrison in London Kings Cross ❤️❤️

Please spread the word to support this important and well-constructed research project 👇👇

Thanks for tearing it up on last week’s #PoemsAbout. This Friday we shift: #BreakTheMould. Think refusal, escape, iconoclast energy. Start posting Friday—early drops get buried. Use Alt Text. Tag #PoemsAbout to be seen. Sign up for deeper prompts: shorturl.at/0Xm7A

"...Plenty more Fish..." 🐟😁🐟😁🐟

For #PoemsAbout #ImperfectMe on #worldmentalhealthday, here's one of mine posted here earlier this year 🤜🤛 @thebrokenspine.co.uk @alanparrywriter.co.uk

#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! 🥰

#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

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

#bellends 👏👏👏

‘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 😊

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...🥰 uk.jkp.com/products/hum...

Sonnet for Perimenopause – Victoria Spires @victoriaspires.bsky.social atriumpoetry.com/2025/10/03/s...

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

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

#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? 🤔🥰

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...👇👇🙏🥰

@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...😊🙏

@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) ❤️

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)... open.substack.com/pub/johnadla...

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?

....artichokes...❤️❤️

For #PoemsAbout #NeverAgain with thanks to host @alanparrywriter.co.uk @thebrokenspine.co.uk and all those participating. This week has been difficult, but/so I wrote this.

asylummagazine.org/2025/09/asyl... The Autumn Issue 2025 of the Asylum magazine is out❤️ With 3 sample articles that can be downloaded free of charge on the Asylum website

This #PoemsAbout #NeverAgain was inspired by Adorno's famous quote that "to write poetry after Auschwitz is barbaric" @alanparrywriter.co.uk @thebrokenspine.co.uk

We are really looking forward to the online launch of the Autumn 2025 Issue of @asylummagazine.bsky.social With a number of brilliant contributions Friday 26 September, 6-7pm UK time Come and join us ❤️ Don't forget to register here: bit.ly/Asylum-launc...

#PoemsAbout #NeverAgain @thebrokenspine.co.uk @alanparrywriter.co.uk At serious risk of over-exposing this poem from the Spring 2025 anthology, but partly based on 'The Zone of Interest' as it is, it stands for the sorrow that #neveragain is often just words, even when it comes to genocide 😔🙏

#WednesdayWIPs @thebrokenspine.co.uk Today is week two of the 'Writing with...' webinar from @northseapoets.bsky.social. Last week it was @dharmabam.bsky.social on Sylvia Plath. Thanks to him & Sylvia I seem now only to be able to write in 3-line stanzas of (7-)syllabic verse. Two of these so far!🥰

Survivors' Zoom Poetry Cafe again this evening - looking forward to another session of open mic creative energies surging....🥰

@victoriaspires.bsky.social #PromptCombo #ancestry Wonderful prompt, Victoria! Sorry I have lately not been much around these parts, mining some side-tunnels in my writing at the mo, but here's one of my ancestors, my mother's father - a free-form poem I posted in January for #PoemsAbout #smoke 🙏😊

Look what landed here this morning, because, you know, I am always well ahead of the curve in my reading matter...🥰

This morning may I #LifttotheSky the wonderful @rosannamcglone.bsky.social , whose fascinating book on the process of poetry and the journey of different writers, from first draft to published piece, arrived on my doormat Saturday...?👌🥰

recoveryinthebin.org/2025/09/19/r... Honours indeed! Many congratulations to @dollysen.bsky.social and @shrinkatlarge.bsky.social and @asylummagazine.bsky.social and other winners and all at @ritb.bsky.social ❤️🤜🤛❤️

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#WednesdayWIPs @thebrokenspine.co.uk On the stove - an essay about anger; an essay about reflective practice groups; an essay about hospitality; a poem about friendship; a mound of correspondence; two training sessions to deliver in the next two days; a mound of reading; and then it gets serious...