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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)
I didn't create this conference poster but I wish I had
November 5, 2025 at 11:59 AM
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
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.
October 21, 2025 at 12:22 PM
Officially jacket season
October 16, 2025 at 3:08 PM
Introducing my niece to some bee boddily bo bop jazz
October 13, 2025 at 2:13 AM
Pat Metheny soon! First beer
October 4, 2025 at 10:07 PM
A dog’s love
October 1, 2025 at 2:33 PM
This was the best thing they had at the ren faire
September 21, 2025 at 11:22 PM
My alter ego is a wizard-poet
September 21, 2025 at 5:29 PM
“1630” from Songs for the Dead

Not sure why but this poem has been bouncing around in my memory lately.

#poem
September 20, 2025 at 7:10 PM
“I need a way to remember where I was in my manuscript”

“Ah, yes. Perfect…”
September 20, 2025 at 7:04 PM
Magic finally printing cards that I can relate to
September 9, 2025 at 3:10 PM
Dunno if I shared this one, me and @estellunaris.bsky.social in front of the River Cam 🤓
September 8, 2025 at 7:12 PM
My favorite part of this was seeing Coleridge’s marginalia in the first edition LB making changes to the Rime

And also just the building itsellf 😍
September 5, 2025 at 1:58 AM
“… and wait for this whole thing to blow over.”
September 4, 2025 at 6:47 PM
And now we have Lukasz Mokrzycki on the Campagna Romana in Shelley and Leopardi

#BARS2025
September 4, 2025 at 8:55 AM
Next up we have @tiffanyrmw.bsky.social discussing Charlotte Smith’s use of deep time in The Emigrants to “reframe exile as a planetary crisis” #BARS2025
September 4, 2025 at 8:42 AM
#BARS2025 begins with ecological and climatological (un)consciousness

@womanofclouds.bsky.social discusses the cloud poetics of William Wordsworth and John Constable
September 4, 2025 at 8:29 AM
In Cambridge for #BARS2025 ☀️
September 3, 2025 at 4:38 PM
Found the last copy of Murdle for the flight! 🕵️
September 2, 2025 at 7:40 PM
I know my Romanticist/humanities/decent-people friends will hate me for this but I got chatGPT to make Coleridge into a gnome

Esteeb Colewedge
August 29, 2025 at 10:07 PM
Birthday breakfast! 🎂 (it’s okay to eat carbs in the morning)
August 22, 2025 at 2:24 PM
New #poetry today
August 21, 2025 at 4:49 PM
Writing most of the day while the (hurricane) rain pitter patters outside and coming up with "cozy" readings of poems:
August 20, 2025 at 8:00 PM
Inspired by the mildly Miltonic rhetoric in my feed
August 16, 2025 at 2:08 PM