Adam Neikirk
@adamneikirk.bsky.social
Poet, Scholar, Pantisocrat
2025 ECF BARS/Wordsworth Grasmere
"Writing like Wordsworth" & "Romantic Poets in the Wild"
Verse culture(?) // Creative Liaison @ bars.bsky.social
adamneikirk.wordpress.com (UNDER CONSTRUCTION)
2025 ECF BARS/Wordsworth Grasmere
"Writing like Wordsworth" & "Romantic Poets in the Wild"
Verse culture(?) // Creative Liaison @ bars.bsky.social
adamneikirk.wordpress.com (UNDER CONSTRUCTION)
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Just a spooooky reminder that this panel session call is up on the BARS 2026 conference website--get in touch if you'd like to take part! www.bars.ac.uk/blog/?p=6199
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preparing a class on animal histories
November 10, 2025 at 7:20 PM
preparing a class on animal histories
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Forced myself to socialize yesterday by going to a paint night fundraiser.
November 10, 2025 at 2:18 AM
Forced myself to socialize yesterday by going to a paint night fundraiser.
Don’t forget: you can do it!
November 10, 2025 at 1:35 PM
Don’t forget: you can do it!
Sending out an endless flurry of Romantic Poets in the Wild emails today. But always looking for more people to feature! Please get in touch with me if you are a creative writer or artist inspired by Romanticism or working Romanticism-adjacent... or even an academic! I want to make lots of episodes!
November 9, 2025 at 9:53 AM
Sending out an endless flurry of Romantic Poets in the Wild emails today. But always looking for more people to feature! Please get in touch with me if you are a creative writer or artist inspired by Romanticism or working Romanticism-adjacent... or even an academic! I want to make lots of episodes!
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The K-SAA is excited to share about an exciting digital event celebrating the publication of Volume IV of the Johns Hopkins University Press edition of Percy Bysshe Shelley’s poetry! Please find more info on the #KSAABlog: www.k-saa.org/blog/jhu4-ev...
‘Shelley’s Anni Mirabiles: The Complete Poetry of Percy Bysshe Shelley,’ Volume 4 — K-SAA
The K-SAA is excited to share about this digital event celebrating the publication of Volume IV of the Johns Hopkins University Press edition of Percy Bysshe Shelley’s poetry! Please find more informa...
www.k-saa.org
November 8, 2025 at 8:05 PM
The K-SAA is excited to share about an exciting digital event celebrating the publication of Volume IV of the Johns Hopkins University Press edition of Percy Bysshe Shelley’s poetry! Please find more info on the #KSAABlog: www.k-saa.org/blog/jhu4-ev...
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here is my story about how Zohran's focus on community amid the loneliness epidemic helped young people connect their politics to an organizing infrastructure, that interviewed ZM, and does not use the NYT's framing of "they don't know how to make friends" :-) and also ran 4 days before NYT's lol
Zohran Mamdani's Establishment-Fighting Campaign Built Community for Young People
“What Mamdani has done is not only inspire and mobilize young people, but he has exposed the establishment and some of their calcified views of participation and inclusion.”
www.teenvogue.com
November 5, 2025 at 2:14 PM
here is my story about how Zohran's focus on community amid the loneliness epidemic helped young people connect their politics to an organizing infrastructure, that interviewed ZM, and does not use the NYT's framing of "they don't know how to make friends" :-) and also ran 4 days before NYT's lol
I didn't create this conference poster but I wish I had
November 5, 2025 at 11:59 AM
I didn't create this conference poster but I wish I had
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Call for Contributors: Volcanic Materiality: Cultural Phenomena in the Age of the Anthropocene, edited by Dewey H. Hall.
Abstracts of 2-300 words due by 30th November 2025.
www.bars.ac.uk/blog/?p=6205
Abstracts of 2-300 words due by 30th November 2025.
www.bars.ac.uk/blog/?p=6205
Call for Contributors: Volcanic Materiality – BARS Blog
www.bars.ac.uk
November 3, 2025 at 12:06 PM
Call for Contributors: Volcanic Materiality: Cultural Phenomena in the Age of the Anthropocene, edited by Dewey H. Hall.
Abstracts of 2-300 words due by 30th November 2025.
www.bars.ac.uk/blog/?p=6205
Abstracts of 2-300 words due by 30th November 2025.
www.bars.ac.uk/blog/?p=6205
And there I felt thee! – on that sea-cliff’s verge,
Whose pines, scarce travelled by the breeze above,
Had made one murmur with the distant surge!
Yes, while I stood and gazed, my temples bare,
And shot my being through earth, sea, and air,
Possessing all things with intensest love
Whose pines, scarce travelled by the breeze above,
Had made one murmur with the distant surge!
Yes, while I stood and gazed, my temples bare,
And shot my being through earth, sea, and air,
Possessing all things with intensest love
November 3, 2025 at 11:50 AM
And there I felt thee! – on that sea-cliff’s verge,
Whose pines, scarce travelled by the breeze above,
Had made one murmur with the distant surge!
Yes, while I stood and gazed, my temples bare,
And shot my being through earth, sea, and air,
Possessing all things with intensest love
Whose pines, scarce travelled by the breeze above,
Had made one murmur with the distant surge!
Yes, while I stood and gazed, my temples bare,
And shot my being through earth, sea, and air,
Possessing all things with intensest love
Circled around to the beginning of the book today to fill some things in. Sometimes it feels like any given topic can be infinitely subdivided. No wonder Coleridge never finished any of his!
November 1, 2025 at 1:51 PM
Circled around to the beginning of the book today to fill some things in. Sometimes it feels like any given topic can be infinitely subdivided. No wonder Coleridge never finished any of his!
So many cool Keats House events coming up that I can't go to :(
November 1, 2025 at 1:47 PM
So many cool Keats House events coming up that I can't go to :(
Just a spooooky reminder that this panel session call is up on the BARS 2026 conference website--get in touch if you'd like to take part! www.bars.ac.uk/blog/?p=6199
October 31, 2025 at 4:31 PM
Just a spooooky reminder that this panel session call is up on the BARS 2026 conference website--get in touch if you'd like to take part! www.bars.ac.uk/blog/?p=6199
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This is TONIGHT!!! 7pm GMT!! Come talk Romantic climate and catastrophe with us 🌋🌪️🌧️🌩️⛅️
Upcoming BARS Digital Event: Volcanic Romanticism (30 Oct 7pm UK time)
Presentations from Dilara Kalkan, Katerina Liontou, Chloe Melvin, and Kate Nankervis on aspects of the Diodata Circle, weather, climate, and volcanic sublimity
Free tickets on Eventbrite: www.eventbrite.com/e/bars-digit...
Presentations from Dilara Kalkan, Katerina Liontou, Chloe Melvin, and Kate Nankervis on aspects of the Diodata Circle, weather, climate, and volcanic sublimity
Free tickets on Eventbrite: www.eventbrite.com/e/bars-digit...
BARS Digital Events: Volcanic Romanticism
Exploring the Diodatic Circle, the volcanic as a sublime, apocalyptic force, and how this inflected their powerful visions of the future.
www.eventbrite.com
October 30, 2025 at 1:46 PM
This is TONIGHT!!! 7pm GMT!! Come talk Romantic climate and catastrophe with us 🌋🌪️🌧️🌩️⛅️
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Looking forward to delivering the Annual Dr Williams's Lecture tomorrow at Senate House, London: Anna Laetitia Barbauld and Dissenting Hymns 🗣️🗣️🗣️
📢 Bookings are open for the 2025 Annual Dr Williams’s Lecture, delivered by our own Prof Mary Fairclough @maryfairclough.bsky.social at CECS & @uoyenglishrl.bsky.social
Book your place for this exciting event on 29 October at the School of Advanced Study, London:
www.sas.ac.uk/news-events/...
Book your place for this exciting event on 29 October at the School of Advanced Study, London:
www.sas.ac.uk/news-events/...
Annual Dr Williams’s Lecture 2025 | Anna Laetita Barbauld and Dissenting Hymns
www.sas.ac.uk
October 28, 2025 at 1:12 PM
Looking forward to delivering the Annual Dr Williams's Lecture tomorrow at Senate House, London: Anna Laetitia Barbauld and Dissenting Hymns 🗣️🗣️🗣️
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October 28, 2025 at 1:25 PM
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The main stream to be aware of this week is Friday, when I'll read The Rime of the Ancient Mariner (1900 GMT/UTC).
October 27, 2025 at 8:40 PM
The main stream to be aware of this week is Friday, when I'll read The Rime of the Ancient Mariner (1900 GMT/UTC).
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29 miles this week - and that takes me over the #nhs1000miles goal (the earliest in the year I've ever met it)! My YTD is now 1021 boots-on hiking miles.
Pics are from mid-week in Martindale with the Skiddaw U3A Roamers. The ethereal blue is Angle Tarn.
@kitzingercelia.bsky.social
Pics are from mid-week in Martindale with the Skiddaw U3A Roamers. The ethereal blue is Angle Tarn.
@kitzingercelia.bsky.social
October 26, 2025 at 7:27 PM
29 miles this week - and that takes me over the #nhs1000miles goal (the earliest in the year I've ever met it)! My YTD is now 1021 boots-on hiking miles.
Pics are from mid-week in Martindale with the Skiddaw U3A Roamers. The ethereal blue is Angle Tarn.
@kitzingercelia.bsky.social
Pics are from mid-week in Martindale with the Skiddaw U3A Roamers. The ethereal blue is Angle Tarn.
@kitzingercelia.bsky.social
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Volcanic Romanticism!! 🌋On a Thursday evening with @bars.bsky.social ! What could be more thrilling? Please join me, @dilarakalkan.bsky.social Chloe Melvin, Katerina Liontou and @davidhiggins.bsky.social on 30th October at 7.30pm to discuss the weather of 1816, the Diodati Circle, and more!
BARS Digital Events: Volcanic Romanticism
Exploring the Diodatic Circle, the volcanic as a sublime, apocalyptic force, and how this inflected their powerful visions of the future.
www.eventbrite.com
October 16, 2025 at 11:28 AM
Volcanic Romanticism!! 🌋On a Thursday evening with @bars.bsky.social ! What could be more thrilling? Please join me, @dilarakalkan.bsky.social Chloe Melvin, Katerina Liontou and @davidhiggins.bsky.social on 30th October at 7.30pm to discuss the weather of 1816, the Diodati Circle, and more!
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Goodnight.
🖼️ The Water Sprite, Theodor Kittelsen, 1887–1892.
🖼️ The Water Sprite, Theodor Kittelsen, 1887–1892.
October 21, 2025 at 7:22 PM
Goodnight.
🖼️ The Water Sprite, Theodor Kittelsen, 1887–1892.
🖼️ The Water Sprite, Theodor Kittelsen, 1887–1892.
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Greta Colombani, "Invocation, Evocation, Vocation: Communication with the Dead and Poetic Investiture in Felicia Hemans's 'A Spirit's Return.'"
October 11, 2025 at 5:12 PM
Greta Colombani, "Invocation, Evocation, Vocation: Communication with the Dead and Poetic Investiture in Felicia Hemans's 'A Spirit's Return.'"
It is of course STC's birthday today (Samuel Taylor Coleridge) born on this day 1772. Here is an excerpt from one of his great lesser known poems, "The Garden of Boccaccio":
The old-fashioned idea of "faery" was never far from Coleridge's mind when he was writing.
The old-fashioned idea of "faery" was never far from Coleridge's mind when he was writing.
October 21, 2025 at 12:22 PM
It is of course STC's birthday today (Samuel Taylor Coleridge) born on this day 1772. Here is an excerpt from one of his great lesser known poems, "The Garden of Boccaccio":
The old-fashioned idea of "faery" was never far from Coleridge's mind when he was writing.
The old-fashioned idea of "faery" was never far from Coleridge's mind when he was writing.
I just built a completely functional Commander deck in about ten minutes out of conceptual nothingness (not to be confused with ex nihilo). I think this is a new record for me.
October 20, 2025 at 10:08 PM
I just built a completely functional Commander deck in about ten minutes out of conceptual nothingness (not to be confused with ex nihilo). I think this is a new record for me.