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Leia Butler @leiabutler.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

The Games Room is one of my fav little parts of FH! Open for a few days on the theme of drifting 🍁🍂

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𝐀𝐟𝐭𝐞𝐫... 𝐏𝐨𝐞𝐦𝐬 𝐢𝐧𝐬𝐩𝐢𝐫𝐞𝐝 𝐛𝐲 𝐨𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫 𝐚𝐫𝐭 @afterpoetry.com · 01/10/2026

The subs window for @afterpoetry.com is open from Oct 1st to 31st. Places for 2027 are limited (there are only so many new/full moons), so @markantonyowen.com and @victoriaspires.bsky.social are looking for the very best #ekphrastic and 'after' poems. Get full details at afterpoetry.com/submit.

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Send a new, unpublished 'after' or ekphrastic poem to After... throughout October 2026.

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John Adlam FRSA 🌈🌍 @johnadlam.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Many congratulations Leia 👏👏👏

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John Adlam FRSA 🌈🌍 @johnadlam.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Happy National Poetry Day! This is my (still can't quite believe it) BestOfTheNet2026-nominated poem ‘Wetland’. Please consider a donation to Médecins Sans Frontières (see commentary below the poem for how). Thank you again @paulwritespoems.bsky.social 🥰 johnadlampoems.substack.com/p/wetland?ut...

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Paul Connolly @thepaulconnolly.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

To all my friends in the #poetrycommunity Happy National Poetry Day. I’m spending today doing some polishing on my poetry collection, which will be published next year👇. Whatever poetic projects you’re undertaking, I wish you every success with them. The world needs poetry & poets #NationalPoetryDay

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Survivors' Poetry 🎤📚🌈 @survivors-poetry.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Happy National Poetry Day from all of us at SP....❤️

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Museum of Homelessness @ourmoh.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

FINAL WEEKS TO CATCH CRIMINAL Our 5* exhibition is only open until 31st October. That means you have exactly 16 open days left to come and see what the fuss has been about.

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John Adlam FRSA 🌈🌍 @johnadlam.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Steve Reich, triple quartet, at the Purcell Room down by the river this evening ❤️

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Robert Christgau @rxgau.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Terry Allen, the Stones, Neil Young — the octogenarians keep ‘em coming in this month’s Consumer Guide. Plus a debut album from a 79-year-old and an A+ from whippersnapper of just 37. robertchristgau.substack.com/p/consumer-g...

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Consumer Guide: September, 2026

Reviews of Terry Allen, Margaret Glaspy, The Rolling Stones, Neil Young, Open Mike Eagle, The Hobknobs, Lenny Kaye, Olivia Rodrigo, Bill Scorzari, Tom Ze, Jeff Evans Porkestra, FaithNYC, and more.

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Paul Connolly @thepaulconnolly.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Look what I’ve ordered. 539: A Year in the Pine Barrens by #poetrycommunity and #poemsaloud stalwart and great friend John Chmura. @johnchmura.bsky.social

The cover of 539: A Year in the Pine Barrens, a poetry collection by John Chmura. A green roadside sign, trees behind it, for the 539 county highway with directions to the South, North, and to Tuckerton, Whiting, and Trenton

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Survivors' Poetry 🎤📚🌈 @survivors-poetry.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

What an evening! Thank you so much @alanparrywriter.co.uk @throwawayreg.bsky.social for headlining and @markantonyowen.com @leiabutler.bsky.social @ajmurraymints.bsky.social @chrisleeds.bsky.social @judemarr.bsky.social and many others, who may or may not be on this platform, for open mic fireworks❤️

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𝕄𝕒𝕣𝕜 𝔸𝕟𝕥𝕠𝕟𝕪 𝕆𝕨𝕖𝕟 @markantonyowen.com · 22/09/2026

One of two poems I'll be reading this evening at the @survivors-poetry.bsky.social Zoom Party from 7pm. See the threaded skeet for more details. 😉

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John Adlam FRSA 🌈🌍 @johnadlam.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

also a special shout-out to @rosannamcglone.bsky.social who used this poem last year in some of her teaching 💓

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John Adlam FRSA 🌈🌍 @johnadlam.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

This poem for my mother has been nominated for Best of the Net by the extraordinarily generous @leiabutler.bsky.social of @fullhouselitmag.bsky.social. I am so grateful to Leia for all her support - and to all who have responded to this poem along the way 🫶 www.fullhouseliterary.com/issue-1-2026...

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Lares and Penates by John Adlam — Full House Literary

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John Adlam FRSA 🌈🌍 @johnadlam.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Paul, thank you so much, lovely you, I so cherish the support you have given me, and the influence I know you have had along the way (all lapses of taste strictly my own, 'natch!!!)... ❤️

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Paul Connolly @thepaulconnolly.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

I’m delighted to be in the current wave of iamb👇, with 3 poems, text and recording: In the Time of the Ice Saints (with thanks to @thewombwellrainbow.bsky.social), Metronome (with a deep bow to Beethoven), & Late Snow. My thanks to excellent editor @markantonyowen.com #poetrycommunity #poemsaloud

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John Adlam FRSA 🌈🌍 @johnadlam.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Thank you and to you @thepaulconnolly.bsky.social. I have also forwarded your readings to one of your biggest international admirers, Luciano Mezzetta 🥰

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John Adlam FRSA 🌈🌍 @johnadlam.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

...surfing the Wave...thank you so much @markantonyowen.com and @iamb.uk for including me in this wonderful publication. So much work I know went into the curation of the site for this, perhaps especially the sound engineering - don't even think of skipping the listening part of the feast! 🥰🙏❤️🙏❤️

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John Adlam FRSA 🌈🌍 @johnadlam.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Omg yes I cannot wait to disappear into my sofa nest with this feast...though, drat it, might have to wait for the weekend to catch the wave in all its glory 🥰

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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 14/09/2026

Your regular reminder: If the Russians stop fighting, the war ends. If the Ukrainians stop fighting, their land will be occupied, their leaders will be killed, their history and language will be erased, their children will be kidnapped to serve Russia.

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John Adlam FRSA 🌈🌍 @johnadlam.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Happy birthday Roger - and mind how you go.... ❤️

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𝕄𝕒𝕣𝕜 𝔸𝕟𝕥𝕠𝕟𝕪 𝕆𝕨𝕖𝕟 @markantonyowen.com · 01/09/2026

My other journal, @afterpoetry.com, has beaten @iamb.uk to the punch by publishing an exquisite ekphrastic poem from @johnadlam.bsky.social ahead of his appearance in wave twenty-seven from September 15th. For John, it's all gravy!

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Survivors' Poetry 🎤📚🌈 @survivors-poetry.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Coming up in two weeks time, Tuesday 22 September, Survivors Poetry Zoom Party, with @alanparrywriter.co.uk and @throwawayreg.bsky.social a featured poet double bill for the Ages. And open mic spoken word and music, of course 🥰 Ping us if you are for any reason not signed up to the mailing list 🙏❤️

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Survivors' Poetry 🎤📚🌈 @survivors-poetry.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Survivors' Poetry is back from that long impossible summer, live and lowdown in the basement at The Harrison, Tuesday 8 September....❤️

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𝕄𝕒𝕣𝕜 𝔸𝕟𝕥𝕠𝕟𝕪 𝕆𝕨𝕖𝕟 @markantonyowen.com · 01/09/2026

If you haven't heard @thepaulconnolly.bsky.social read his poetry yet, I envy you the joy you're going to experience from the 15th of September when wave twenty-seven of @iamb.uk hits screens everywhere. Not since @barney-ashton.bsky.social has a poet/performer given so much in the service of words.

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John Adlam FRSA 🌈🌍 @johnadlam.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Many congratulations to all concerned! 👏👏👏

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Leia Butler @leiabutler.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

So looking forward to this! ✨ Thanks so much Paul for letting me be part of this!

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John Adlam FRSA 🌈🌍 @johnadlam.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

SO exciting to be swimming in such company ❤️

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𝕄𝕒𝕣𝕜 𝔸𝕟𝕥𝕠𝕟𝕪 𝕆𝕨𝕖𝕟 @markantonyowen.com · 29/08/2026

John is a lovely bloke and a fine poet. Great voice for reading his own work, too – as you'll discover for yourselves from September 15th when he becomes part of wave twenty-seven of @iamb.uk. 😉

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John Adlam FRSA 🌈🌍 @johnadlam.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

My poem 'Still life' was published last night as the full moon strained for a gap in the cloud cover over South London.. www.afterpoetry.com/poem/aug-28-... A thousand thanks to you @markantonyowen.com for all your support and encouragement and *superlative* publishing care and curation...❤️🙏❤️🙏❤️

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Survivors' Poetry 🎤📚🌈 @survivors-poetry.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

Survivors' Poetry humbly reminds you all that we are offering no events in August - for even SP must rest on the eighth month - but we will be back with a bang, live and dangerous at the Harrison, on Tuesday September 8th...🤜🤛

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John Adlam FRSA 🌈🌍 @johnadlam.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

Ooh look what just landed (I know, I am late coming to this!). Amazing pamphlet by the wonderful @leiabutler.bsky.social via @brokensleepbooks.bsky.social, and thanks @thepaulconnolly.bsky.social for the recommendation 🥰

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John Adlam FRSA 🌈🌍 @johnadlam.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

Still buzzing - will be buzzing a while yet! - that this poem has been nominated for Best of the Net 2027. Thank you again @paulwritespoems.bsky.social ! This is my Substack repost with a wee commentary and more promotion of the anthology Unwhispered Legacy! 🥰 johnadlampoems.substack.com/p/wetland

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Wetland

Dry is but the domain of distant memory.

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John Adlam FRSA 🌈🌍 @johnadlam.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

So well merited, Leia, your poem here is fabulous 🤩👏👏

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Survivors' Poetry 🎤📚🌈 @survivors-poetry.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

Tonight's the night ❤️

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John Adlam FRSA 🌈🌍 @johnadlam.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

I can't quite believe this is happening! The anthology of the year is the gift that keeps giving 🥰 Thank you so much @paulwritespoems.bsky.social for this most generous accolade, in such wonderful company, and thank you again for all that you do 🤜🤛🙏🙏❤️

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Paul @paulwritespoems.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

Finally. The day has come to release Unwhispered Legacy from The Book Bag x Write Here, Right Now out into the world. Thank you to all the poets who contributed to this book. Proudly raising money for MSF. Visit 🔗 shorturl.at/iVhZN to download your copy. #poetry #anthology

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Survivors' Poetry 🎤📚🌈 @survivors-poetry.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

We at SP would just like to get excited with y'all about many poetry feasts in store this autumn...take an anticipatory bow @alanparrywriter.co.uk and @throwawayreg.bsky.social (September) @internetofwords.com plus tba (October) @leiabutler.bsky.social and @thepaulconnolly.bsky.social (December)🥳 🥰

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Survivors' Poetry 🎤📚🌈 @survivors-poetry.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

Survivors' Poetry Zoom Party!!!! Tuesday 28 July 7.30pm. Performance poetry! Spoken word! Music! Art! Agitprop! Solidarity!! And lastly but not leastly, good cheer!!! ❤️❤️

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John Adlam FRSA 🌈🌍 @johnadlam.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

And @leiabutler.bsky.social I bought your book, slightly uncertain why I didn't do so before, but anyway, looking forward to it! 🥰

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John Adlam FRSA 🌈🌍 @johnadlam.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

Totally! @paulwritespoems.bsky.social you were a wonderful host as always, and this time in very difficult circumstances. Thank you so much 🙏🙏

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