Adam Smith

Biography

Adam Julius Smith was encouraged to explore his own writing through engagement with therapeutic creative writing groups using Gestalt therapy theory and freefall writing techniques. In 2023, he joined the Mole Valley Poets, inspired by the benefits he experienced from working with a small group of poets as part of a short course at Goldsmiths University of London entitled ‘Poetry: Form and Feeling’. Adam enjoys exploring and developing poetry and creative writing through contact with the Mole Valley Poets and the wider community engagement that results. Adam has published on the UK Association of Gestalt Practitoners website and as part of The Mole Valley Poets Anthologies: Hidden Light 2024 and Otherworlds 2025.

Poetry

From the Mole Valley Poets 'Otherworlds' Anthology 2025 Title: The Library on the Hill: Waiting for my Parents to Finish with the Pub and Marriage Guidance. Do you remember the time when you looked between the shelves, those musical notes on the staves of your life. Do you remember the shelves in the dark, loaded and heavy, their bolus of light lifting your heart. Do you remember where you hid, deep between shelves, books entwining you like trees, to which you wished you belonged. Do you remember your history, from nineteen seventy-five, the story of a boy who eats his mother and survives the world of the pub and its malodorous smell, the Horse and the Chains at the foot of the hill, while you lay in wait, high above, deep in your shelves, safe in the dark. Adam Julius Smith 2025

All poems are copyright of the originating author. Permission must be obtained before using or performing others' poems.

Blog entries by Adam Smith

Nonet Challange 2025 (06/12/2025)

Blog link: https://www.writeoutloud.net/blogs/adamsmith