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The Broken Spine (SUBS OPEN) @thebrokenspine.co.uk · 10h

Some books you read. Some you want to own. BEAUTIFUL LITTLE FOOLS is a gorgeous hardback built to be held, kept and revisited. Then you open it, and the glamour starts coming apart. Edited by Alan Parry He/Him & Karen Pierce Gonzalez shorturl.at/126Ks

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The Broken Spine (SUBS OPEN) @thebrokenspine.co.uk · 29/09/2026

How do you write the end of the world when parts of it are already ending? LAST LIGHT: APOCALYPSE POETRY gathers contemporary poets confronting collapse, extinction, loss and humanity’s talent for engineering its own disasters. Published before. Worth reading now. shorturl.at/hFE9K

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The Broken Spine (SUBS OPEN) @thebrokenspine.co.uk · 29/09/2026

#PoemsAbout #Rot starts Friday. Write decomposition. Corruption. Spoilage. Something beautiful kept long past the point it should have been thrown away. Draft now. Share from Friday. Tag #PoemsAbout. Use Alt Text.

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The Broken Spine (SUBS OPEN) @thebrokenspine.co.uk · 28/09/2026

Your first hero never really leaves. You get older. Your politics change. Your desires change. Your writing changes. Then you look back. For Alan Parry He/Him it was Jim Morrison. 27 poems. One lifelong conversation. Foreword by Matthew M C Smith shorturl.at/FnHJS

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The Broken Spine (SUBS OPEN) @thebrokenspine.co.uk · 27/09/2026

You don't need another poetry recommendation saved somewhere you'll never look at again. You need a book. AFTER HOURS: BEAT CULTURE MADE NEW. Rebellion, introspection and Beat restlessness rewritten for now. Buy it. Read it. Pass the word on. shorturl.at/ETO6h

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The Broken Spine (SUBS OPEN) @thebrokenspine.co.uk · 27/09/2026

Next up: #Rot. Flowers rot. Houses rot. Governments rot. Love can rot beautifully if you leave it somewhere warm enough. New theme begins Friday. Don’t post early. Use Alt Text. Tag #PoemsAbout. Read. Repost. Reply.

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The Broken Spine (SUBS OPEN) @thebrokenspine.co.uk · 26/09/2026

We don't stop having influences because we get older. We understand them differently. For Alan Parry He/Him it was Jim Morrison. Foreword by Matthew M C Smith shorturl.at/FnHJS

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The Broken Spine (SUBS OPEN) @thebrokenspine.co.uk · 25/09/2026

#PoemsAbout #DeadLetters is live. Address it. Stamp it. Confess something. Then decide whether it deserves to arrive. Post from today through Thursday. Tag #PoemsAbout. Use Alt Text. #TakeRisks #EndOnAnImage #AvoidCliché Read 3+. Repost. Reply.

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The Broken Spine (SUBS OPEN) @thebrokenspine.co.uk · 24/09/2026

Name the artist you discovered young who permanently fucked with your idea of what art could be. Got one? Good. For Alan Parry He/Him it was Jim Morrison. 27 is what happened next. Foreword by Matthew M C Smith shorturl.at/FnHJS

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The Broken Spine (SUBS OPEN) @thebrokenspine.co.uk · 24/09/2026

Tomorrow: #PoemsAbout #DeadLetters. Some words miss their destination. Some reach it twenty years too late. Write from there. Don’t post before Friday. Tag #PoemsAbout. Use Alt Text.

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The Broken Spine (SUBS OPEN) @thebrokenspine.co.uk · 23/09/2026

Beat doesn't have to mean highways, jazz bars and mythology. In AFTER HOURS, Laura Sheldon turns towards the intimate terrain of relationships. That's the point of making Beat culture new: keeping the nerve, changing where we look.

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The Broken Spine (SUBS OPEN) @thebrokenspine.co.uk · 22/09/2026

A book about influence deserves another voice at the door. For Alan Parry He/Him it was Jim Morrison: first literary hero, lifelong influence, and eventually the starting point for these 27 poems. Foreword by Matthew M C Smith shorturl.at/FnHJS

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The Broken Spine (SUBS OPEN) @thebrokenspine.co.uk · 22/09/2026

#PoemsAbout #DeadLetters starts Friday. Write what never arrived. What came back unopened. What you wrote and couldn't send. Or address the dead and see who answers. Draft now. Share from Friday. Tag #PoemsAbout. Use Alt Text.

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The Broken Spine (SUBS OPEN) @thebrokenspine.co.uk · 21/09/2026

It’s #LiftToTheSky. Lift the people doing the work you believe in.

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Merril D. Smith @merrildsmith.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

I just spent my morning at this workshop, and it was well-worth it! Thank you so much @alanparrywriter.co.uk

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Clare O'Brien @clareobrien.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Just ordered this! I've always loved Jim Morrison & I'm also interested because I wrote something similar for #DavidBowie. It won a competition for 13 poems on a single subject & was published by @hedgehogpress.co.uk in 2022. Ebook available for £3.99 below or physical copies from Amazon (or me!)

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“Who am I supposed to be driving?” – Clare O’Brien (eBook PDF Edition)

“Who am I supposed to be driving?” – Clare O’Brien (eBook PDF Edition) Official Release Date: 9th August 2022 Order Signed Copies Direct From Clare O’Brien HERE

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The Broken Spine (SUBS OPEN) @thebrokenspine.co.uk · 20/09/2026

Morrison understood that performance could be erotic, dangerous and ridiculous at the same time. 27 doesn't politely remove the sexuality from that inheritance. For Alan Parry He/Him it was Jim Morrison who opened that particular door. shorturl.at/FnHJS

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The Broken Spine (SUBS OPEN) @thebrokenspine.co.uk · 20/09/2026

Next up: #DeadLetters. Wrong addresses. Returned envelopes. Last words. Love letters that outlived the love. Things written for people who will never read them. New theme begins Friday. Don’t post early. Use Alt Text. Tag #PoemsAbout. Read. Repost. Reply.

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The Broken Spine (SUBS OPEN) @thebrokenspine.co.uk · 19/09/2026

We want The Broken Spine doing strange new things again. Celebrating the books and writers we've already published while creating new workshops, new ideas and new reasons to gather around poetry. THE POETRY OF CULTURAL DEBRIS is our next experiment. 20 September. shorturl.at/IZ5TX

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The Broken Spine (SUBS OPEN) @thebrokenspine.co.uk · 19/09/2026

Every writer is haunted by other writers. The good ones eventually stop hiding it. For Alan Parry He/Him it was Jim Morrison. 27 makes that influence the subject rather than pretending art arrives from nowhere. Foreword by Matthew M C Smith shorturl.at/FnHJS

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The Broken Spine (SUBS OPEN) @thebrokenspine.co.uk · 18/09/2026

Culture isn't only what gets archived. It's what gets binned. Cancelled. Discontinued. Demolished. Reformatted. Left in the loft. Forgotten by everyone except, inexplicably, you. THE POETRY OF CULTURAL DEBRIS. That's where we're going digging. shorturl.at/IZ5TX

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The Broken Spine (SUBS OPEN) @thebrokenspine.co.uk · 18/09/2026

#PoemsAbout #Strays is live. Get lost. Go feral. Refuse to come when called. Post from today through Thursday. Tag #PoemsAbout. Use Alt Text. #TakeRisks #EndOnAnImage #AvoidCliché Read 3+. Repost. Reply.

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The Broken Spine (SUBS OPEN) @thebrokenspine.co.uk · 17/09/2026

No money? We've kept free Cost of Living Places. No proof. No forms. No sob story required. Take the place. And if you can't attend at all, repost the workshop instead. There is more than one way to help keep an independent literary community moving. shorturl.at/IZ5TX

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The Broken Spine (SUBS OPEN) @thebrokenspine.co.uk · 17/09/2026

You don't need to own every Doors record to understand 27. You just need to remember the artist who cracked open a door for you. The one who made another kind of art seem possible. For Alan Parry He/Him it was Jim Morrison. Foreword by Matthew M C Smith shorturl.at/FnHJS

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The Broken Spine (SUBS OPEN) @thebrokenspine.co.uk · 17/09/2026

Tomorrow: #PoemsAbout #Strays. Who gets taken home? Who gets left outside? Who learnt they were better off there? Don’t post before Friday. Tag #PoemsAbout. Use Alt Text.

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The Broken Spine (SUBS OPEN) @thebrokenspine.co.uk · 16/09/2026

Independent presses need readers. They also need rooms where writers can experiment, learn, argue, laugh and make new work. That's what we're trying to rebuild. If you want more from The Broken Spine, attending this workshop genuinely helps us make more possible. shorturl.at/IZ5TX

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C Maxfield @pickledp3.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Barrels of custard creams, UHT milk, Flight of the Navigator, Sonic the Hedgehog, Tracker bars, Timmy Mallett, and miles and miles of 3d Artex swirls that you could pick off between your fingers?

A photo of thick decorative plaster which is applied to interior walls and ceilings to make textured patterns like swirls.

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The Broken Spine (SUBS OPEN) @thebrokenspine.co.uk · 15/09/2026

THE POETRY OF CULTURAL DEBRIS isn't really about objects. The object is bait. We pick it up and see what comes attached. Memory. Money. Family. Desire. Shame. Place. Loss. Identity. That stupid little object might be carrying half your life. shorturl.at/IZ5TX

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The Broken Spine (SUBS OPEN) @thebrokenspine.co.uk · 15/09/2026

The photograph stays young forever. The fan doesn't. That's where 27 gets interesting. For Alan Parry He/Him it was Jim Morrison. Same influence. Older writer. Changed landscapes. Different eyes. Foreword by Matthew M C Smith shorturl.at/FnHJS

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The Broken Spine (SUBS OPEN) @thebrokenspine.co.uk · 15/09/2026

#PoemsAbout #Strays starts Friday. Runaways. Outsiders. Lost dogs. Lost people. Feral hearts. Chosen packs. Write whatever refuses the collar. Draft now. Share from Friday. Tag #PoemsAbout. Use Alt Text.

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The Broken Spine (SUBS OPEN) @thebrokenspine.co.uk · 14/09/2026

Things your poetry is allowed to contain: professional wrestling soap operas football video games boybands cheap aftershave catalogues takeaways shit ornaments Saturday-night telly the embarrassing thing you loved without irony There. You're free. shorturl.at/IZ5TX

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The Broken Spine (SUBS OPEN) @thebrokenspine.co.uk · 14/09/2026

#LiftToTheSky Monday: Community isn’t abstract. It’s built post by post.

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The Broken Spine (SUBS OPEN) @thebrokenspine.co.uk · 13/09/2026

We're not asking you to support The Broken Spine out of pity. Buy something useful. Four hours of writing. New material. Serious craft. Revision. Time to work. A substantial new draft. If it succeeds, we get to build more new things. Everybody wins. shorturl.at/IZ5TX

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The Broken Spine (SUBS OPEN) @thebrokenspine.co.uk · 13/09/2026

Poetry and rock & roll have always been sleeping together. Sometimes brilliantly. Sometimes disastrously. For Alan Parry He/Him it was Jim Morrison who first made that boundary particularly interesting. Foreword by Matthew M C Smith shorturl.at/FnHJS

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The Broken Spine (SUBS OPEN) @thebrokenspine.co.uk · 13/09/2026

Next up: #Strays. The unwanted. The unclaimed. The ones sleeping somewhere they shouldn’t. The ones who stopped waiting to be invited in. New theme begins Friday. Don’t post early. Use Alt Text. Tag #PoemsAbout. Read. Repost. Reply.

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The Broken Spine (SUBS OPEN) @thebrokenspine.co.uk · 12/09/2026

Poets: stop waiting for inspiration to arrive looking windswept beside the sea. It's probably underneath your bed in a carrier bag full of obsolete cables, ticket stubs and crap you haven't been able to throw away. Start there. shorturl.at/IZ5TX

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The Broken Spine (SUBS OPEN) @thebrokenspine.co.uk · 11/09/2026

What survives our heroes? The work? The pose? The mythology? The person we were when we discovered them? For Alan Parry He/Him it was Jim Morrison. 27 asks what remains when influence passes through another life. Foreword by Matthew M C Smith shorturl.at/FnHJS

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The Broken Spine (SUBS OPEN) @thebrokenspine.co.uk · 11/09/2026

We're suspicious of any definition of culture that remembers Shakespeare but forgets Blockbuster Video. THE POETRY OF CULTURAL DEBRIS goes rummaging through the stuff supposedly beneath serious poetry. Come and lower the tone. shorturl.at/IZ5TX

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The Broken Spine (SUBS OPEN) @thebrokenspine.co.uk · 11/09/2026

#PoemsAbout #FaultLines is live. Find the fracture. Put your finger in it. Post from today through Thursday. Tag #PoemsAbout. Use Alt Text. #TakeRisks #EndOnAnImage #AvoidCliché Read 3+. Repost. Reply.

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The Broken Spine (SUBS OPEN) @thebrokenspine.co.uk · 10/09/2026

Class lives in objects. Which trainers were real. Which cereal was own-brand. Whether Christmas came from Harrods or the Argos catalogue. The coat somebody handed down. The thing everyone else had. The thing you couldn't have. Low culture isn't low stakes. shorturl.at/IZ5TX

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The Broken Spine (SUBS OPEN) @thebrokenspine.co.uk · 10/09/2026

Tomorrow: #PoemsAbout #FaultLines. Don’t write the earthquake. Write the crack that knew it was coming. Don’t post before Friday. Tag #PoemsAbout. Use Alt Text.

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The Broken Spine (SUBS OPEN) @thebrokenspine.co.uk · 09/09/2026

Before algorithms told us what to like, sometimes we found artists and fell straight down the hole. Albums. Bootlegs. Books. Interviews. Poems. For Alan Parry He/Him it was Jim Morrison. 27 is the long echo of that discovery. Foreword by Matthew M C Smith shorturl.at/FnHJS

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