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@adlibby.bsky.social
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Writer of pantomimes, poetry, and flash fiction. Loves PG Tips, haiku, and challenging perceptions about ‘women of a certain age!’ 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

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AdLibby @adlibby.bsky.social · 14h
To celebrate reaching number 12 in Amazon’s hot new haiku releases I’m sharing some poems from the collection #haiku #senryu #poetry #shootingfornumber1
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AdLibby @adlibby.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Look my haiku collection is 14 on hot new haiku releases! Thank you to everyone who has bought one #shootingfornumber1 #bookforsale
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AdLibby @adlibby.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Delighted to have these in the Autumn issue of @waleshaiku.bsky.social Thank you to editors @joewoodhouse.bsky.social and @loverpoetic.bsky.social Read the issue here: www.waleshaikujournal.com/autumn2026
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AdLibby @adlibby.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
It’s #NationalPoetryDay in the UK so I thought I’d share 4 poems just published in The Candyman’s Trumpet. The October issue was for Welsh poets and I’m thrilled to be alongside many poets I truly admire #cymru #poetry
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AdLibby @adlibby.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Very happy to have these two in the latest stellar issue of Folk ku. Thank you to editor, Jodie Hawthorne #haiku #senryu
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AdLibby @adlibby.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Very happy to have 3 #haiku in the new issue of #frogpond Thank you to editor, Allyson Whipple #poetry
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AdLibby @adlibby.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Thrilled to have these #haiku published by Heliosparrow in August. I wrote them on holiday in #Vermont #poetry
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AdLibby @adlibby.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Day 3 where I share the cover of my new poetry book from AlienBuddha Press Pili pala is Welsh for butterfly. The book is a reimagining of Madame Butterfly set in Wales during World War II but with a twist! #poetry #𝐛𝐮𝐭𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐟𝐥𝐲𝐞𝐟𝐟𝐞𝐜𝐭
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AdLibby @adlibby.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
My haiku published in Haiku Dialogue from the prompt Intoxication – Meditation Thank you to guest editor, Deborah Karl-Brandt #haiku
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AdLibby @adlibby.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Day Two of teasing my cover reveal. My book will be published this weekend by @alienbuddhapress.bsky.social Stay tuned for the title and a poem or two later this week #poetrychapbook #cymru #butterfly
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AdLibby @adlibby.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
I’m delighted to announce I have a book coming out with @thealienbuddha this month. It is a poetic reimagining of Madame Butterfly set in Wales-I will be sharing parts of the cover culminating with the title all week #poetry #cymru #newbook
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AdLibby @adlibby.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Honored to have this haiku in today’s HAIKU DIALOGUE – from the prompt-Intoxication – Falling in Love. Huge thanks to guest editor, Deborah Karl-Brandt for commentary and kind words. #haiku #poetry #love
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AdLibby @adlibby.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
Thrilled to have my experimental haiku chosen for commentary today in Haiku Dialogue from the prompt-Man-Machinery Interface. Thank you to guest editor, Alex Fyffe For his thoughtful words. #haiku
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AdLibby @adlibby.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
Delighted to have this haiku in the latest issue of @prunejuicejournal.bsky.social Thank you to editors, Orrin Préjean and @pippaesque.bsky.social #haiku #senryu
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AdLibby @adlibby.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
Blown away to have my haiku highly commended in the 2026 MARLENE MOUNTAIN CONTEST. Many thanks to judges Rowan Beckett Minor and Vandana Parashar. 69b046c2-a7e1-4a9a-9a22-1c70986eaa24.filesusr.com/ugd/f4c0ea_6... #haiku #senryu #poetryasprotest
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AdLibby @adlibby.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
Honored to have this haiku The Zen Space showcase and anthology, EIC Marie Marshall, curated by Guest Editor Jerome Berglund. The whole issue is a wonderful read: thezenspace.wordpress.com/submission/ #haiku #senryu
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AdLibby @adlibby.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
Delighted to have these haiku in @waleshaiku.bsky.social summer issue Thank you to editors, CX Turner & Joe Woodhouse #haiku #summer #Cymru
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AdLibby @adlibby.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
Thrilled to share my haiku collection is being published this summer. Huge thanks to Joshua Gage and Cuttlefish Books Might have to have a launch party in the near future…watch this space #books #haiku
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AdLibby @adlibby.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
Delighted to be nominated for a Touchstone by bougainvillea journal. Thank you to editor Bhawana Rathore #haiku
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AdLibby @adlibby.bsky.social · 06/06/2026
Love book post especially when I have 2 poems in the book! Thank you to Arcana Poetry Press and editor, Jordyn Krieg, you have been a joy to work with and I truly appreciate the thoughtful note that came with my book! #booksforsale #poetry
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AdLibby @adlibby.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
Delighted Haiku Girl Summer is back! Equally delighted to have a ku published #haiku
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AdLibby @adlibby.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
Always lovely to find out your haiku has been selected for commentary in Haiku Fualogue. Thank you to guest editor Carole MacRury, for her thoughtful words. #haiku #thingstotalkabout
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AdLibby @adlibby.bsky.social · 02/05/2026
Delighted to have some ku in the beautiful spring issue of Wales Haiku Journal. Thank you to editors C X Turner Luci and Joe Woodhouse #spring #haiku #poetry
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AdLibby @adlibby.bsky.social · 18/04/2026
Feeling incredibly honored to be awarded a #touchstoneaward.Congrats to my fellow poets and to everyone who continues to submit poems. Special thank you to #frogpondjournal for first publishing the poem and to editor, @teatimehaiku.bsky.social #inittowinit #internationalhaikupoetryday
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AdLibby @adlibby.bsky.social · 11/04/2026
Happy to be included in Some Words effort to post a poem a day for #NaPoMo. Click on the photo to read the whole poem or check out the link below. Huge thanks to editor Justin Carter. #poetry #poetrycommunity somewords.boards.net/thread/112/a...
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AdLibby @adlibby.bsky.social · 04/04/2026
Thrilled and honored to find myself on the long list for the Touchstone Awards for Individual Poems. Thank you to all the editors who nominated me and a special thank you to Frogpond Journal for publishing this ku #haiku #poetryasprotest #TouchstoneAward
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AdLibby @adlibby.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
The new issue of @prunejuicejournal.bsky.social just dropped. Love the way editors, Pippa Phillips and Orrin Préjean have formatted the issue so each poem is part of a larger conversation. I am also very grateful they published 2 of my #senryu
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AdLibby @adlibby.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
Delighted that my zoo ku made it onto Guest Editor Nancy Brady’s commentary list. Read the full list here thehaikufoundation.org/haiku-dialogue… #haiku #JuliaDonaldson #TheGruffalo
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AdLibby @adlibby.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
Delighted to debut in La Rotonde Review. Thank you to editor, , Karina Longo open.substack.com/pub/larotond... #poetry
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AdLibby @adlibby.bsky.social · 21/03/2026
It was #WorldPoetryDay yesterday and I’m chuffed to have a poem in the brand new Andorinha Press first issue. Thank you to editor Sonia Nicholson. #poetry #birds andorinhapress.wordpress.com/2026/03/20/i...
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AdLibby @adlibby.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
Thrilled my haiku will be displayed in Washington DC. As part of the #GoldenHaiku Competition. This year's theme, "The Joy of Nature," inspired haiku submissions from writers representing 90+ countries #haiku #washingtondc
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AdLibby @adlibby.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
Great to be back in New Verse News. Thanks to editor, James Penha #poetry #poetryasprotest #texasprimary
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AdLibby @adlibby.bsky.social · 11/03/2026
Delighted to debut in Electric Pink with this poem about menopause #poetry #menopause
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AdLibby @adlibby.bsky.social · 08/03/2026
Happy #internationalwomensday #haiku
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AdLibby @adlibby.bsky.social · 07/03/2026
Delighted to have 2 haiku in the new Bougainvillea Journal. Many thanks to editor, Bhawana Rathore. #haiku #poetry
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AdLibby @adlibby.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
Happy to be part of a bumper crop of pet haiku this week in Haiku Dialogue. My thanks to editor, Nancy Brady #haiku #cats #poetry
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AdLibby @adlibby.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
Very happy to be back in tsuri-dōrō . My gratitude to editor, Tony Pupello, for selecting this haiku. The issue is jam packed with some fabulous ku- tsuridoro.org/about #haiku #poetry
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AdLibby @adlibby.bsky.social · 01/03/2026
Chuffed to have 14 senryu ( and 1 political monoku) published in The Candyman’s Trumpet. My huge thanks to editor Jack Caradoc. #senryu #poetry #poetryasprotest
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AdLibby @adlibby.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
Delighted this haiku was selected for turtle dreams: The Red Moon Anthology of English-Language Haiku 2025. Huge thanks to Editor Jim Kacian for selecting my poem, which first appeared in Frogpond. #haiku #poetry
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AdLibby @adlibby.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
Thrilled that one of my senryu was selected for the Poetry Pea inaugural ‘golden pea’ awards. Huge thanks to editor, Patricia Mcquire. #senryu #shortformpoetry
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AdLibby @adlibby.bsky.social · 08/02/2026
Couldn’t be more chuffed to receive my contributor’s copy of @poetrywales.bsky.social and see my name under ‘new Welsh poets’ #poetry #welshmythology
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AdLibby @adlibby.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
Happy to be back in @waleshaiku.bsky.social winter issue. Thanks to the editors, Joe Woodhouse and C.X. Turner. #haiku Read the issue here: waleshaikujournal.com/winter2025
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AdLibby @adlibby.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
First Haiku Dialogue publication from the prompt- movement in stillness. Thank you to Guest Editor Vidya Shankar #haiku
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AdLibby @adlibby.bsky.social · 17/01/2026
Delighted to be back itching and a scratching in Five Fleas. Thank you to flea keeper, Robin Jacobson for publishing my ku #haiku #poetryasprotest
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AdLibby @adlibby.bsky.social · 02/01/2026
Had a lovely morning reading folk ku’s issue 6- trees Thanks to editor Jodie Hawthorne for including my ku #haiku #trees
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AdLibby @adlibby.bsky.social · 01/01/2026
New Year, new notebook, first entry a haiku published in tsuri-dōrō. Thank you to editor Tony Pupello #haiku
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AdLibby @adlibby.bsky.social · 31/12/2025
I keep a notebook of #haiku that have made an impression on me so I can nominate one for the #Touchstone you can nominate 2, one of your own and one other. 3 of my picks have already been nominated so in the end I went with one from Femku Mag. I love this #senryu
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AdLibby @adlibby.bsky.social · 24/12/2025
An #Advent of #haiku Day 24 Today 3 ku published in Frogpond. I have throughly enjoyed reaching into my 2025 personal archive. Many thanks to everyone who has published, read, commented on my haiku this year. FYI-‘an old olive tree’ is my fav I wrote in 2025 Happy Holidays!
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AdLibby @adlibby.bsky.social · 23/12/2025
An #Advent of #haiku Day 23 Another from my new collection, Pressed Between Palms. amazon.com/s?k=pressed+be… holiday yarns a thin white thread on my wrist slowly greying
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AdLibby @adlibby.bsky.social · 22/12/2025
An #Advent of #haiku Day 22 from Pressed Between Palms., available from today on Amazon. Thanks to editor and publisher Jerome Burgland. Also my gratitude to CX Turner and @haikutec for contributing a blurb First published by Heterodux Haiku-and nominated for a #Touchstone
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