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Independent poetry press + cultural review platform. We publish narrative-led work with edge. #PoemsAbout #LiftToTheSky #WednesdayWIPs #PromoteIndieLit Edited by @alanparrywriter.co.uk www.thebrokenspine.co.uk linktr.ee/brokenspinearts

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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
Book cover for Beautiful Little Fools: Poetry of Glamour, Obsession, and the Gilded Age. A stylised Art Deco illustration shows a sharply dressed man in a black tuxedo and a glamorous woman in a black cloche hat, with geometric black, white and burgundy shapes behind them. The title appears in large white lettering on a deep burgundy panel, with The Broken Spine logo at the bottom.
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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.
A dark, close-up photograph of wilted and decaying flowers, their curled brown petals lit by warm orange light against a near-black background. The Broken Spine logo appears at the top left and @thebrokenspine.co.uk at the top right. White text at the bottom reads: “Read Repost Reply #POEMSABOUT #ROT”.
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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
Black book cover for Twentyseven by Alan Parry. At the centre is an illustrated classical stone head of a bearded man, surrounded by deep red roses, dark foliage and an ornate circular frame. The title appears in tall cream lettering at the top, with Alan Parry’s name beneath. The Broken Spine logo appears in white at the bottom.
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The Broken Spine (SUBS OPEN) @thebrokenspine.co.uk · 28/09/2026
For #LiftToTheSky, name someone who makes this space better.
A black-and-white photograph of seabirds flying above a calm sea. Gentle waves roll toward the shore beneath a pale sky. In the centre of the image, handwritten-style text reads “#LIFTTOTHESKY,” with “@thebrokenspine.co.uk” beneath it. The Broken Spine fountain pen logo appears in the top right corner.
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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.
A dark, close-up photograph of wilted and decaying flowers, their curled brown petals lit by warm orange light against a near-black background. The Broken Spine logo appears at the top left and @thebrokenspine.co.uk at the top right. White text at the bottom reads: “Read Repost Reply #POEMSABOUT #ROT”.
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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
Black book cover for Twentyseven by Alan Parry. At the centre is an illustrated classical stone head of a bearded man, surrounded by deep red roses, dark foliage and an ornate circular frame. The title appears in tall cream lettering at the top, with Alan Parry’s name beneath. The Broken Spine logo appears in white at the bottom.
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The Broken Spine (SUBS OPEN) @thebrokenspine.co.uk · 25/09/2026
#NoFuture. #OutAfterMidnight. #BadHabits. #DeepCuts. #Strays. If you've been writing with our #PoemsAbout prompts, you already know some of the territory The Broken Spine loves. Now read what we've published. AFTER HOURS: BEAT CULTURE MADE NEW.
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After Hours: Beat Culture Made New: 1 (The Broken Spine: Thematic Slimline Poetry Anthologies): Amazon.co.uk: Parry, Alan: 9798324375980: Books
Buy After Hours: Beat Culture Made New: 1 (The Broken Spine: Thematic Slimline Poetry Anthologies) by Parry, Alan (ISBN: 9798324375980) from Amazon's Book Store. Everyday low prices and free delivery on eligible orders.
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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
Black book cover for Twentyseven by Alan Parry. At the centre is an illustrated classical stone head of a bearded man, surrounded by deep red roses, dark foliage and an ornate circular frame. The title appears in tall cream lettering at the top, with Alan Parry’s name beneath. The Broken Spine logo appears in white at the bottom.
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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.
A dark still-life photograph of old handwritten letters and envelopes layered across a surface, some decorated with postage marks and small pressed-flower designs. The Broken Spine logo appears at the top left and @thebrokenspine.co.uk at the top right. White text at the bottom reads: “Read Repost Reply #POEMSABOUT #DEADLETTERS”.
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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
Black book cover for Twentyseven by Alan Parry. At the centre is an illustrated classical stone head of a bearded man, surrounded by deep red roses, dark foliage and an ornate circular frame. The title appears in tall cream lettering at the top, with Alan Parry’s name beneath. The Broken Spine logo appears in white at the bottom.
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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.
A dark still-life photograph of old handwritten letters and envelopes layered across a surface, some decorated with postage marks and small pressed-flower designs. The Broken Spine logo appears at the top left and @thebrokenspine.co.uk at the top right. White text at the bottom reads: “Read Repost Reply #POEMSABOUT #DEADLETTERS”.
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The Broken Spine (SUBS OPEN) @thebrokenspine.co.uk · 21/09/2026
If independent poetry matters to you, buy independent poetry. Not someday. Not just the newest release. There are extraordinary books already sitting on small-press shelves waiting to be read. AFTER HOURS is one of ours.
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After Hours: Beat Culture Made New: 1 (The Broken Spine: Thematic Slimline Poetry Anthologies): Amazon.co.uk: Parry, Alan: 9798324375980: Books
Buy After Hours: Beat Culture Made New: 1 (The Broken Spine: Thematic Slimline Poetry Anthologies) by Parry, Alan (ISBN: 9798324375980) from Amazon's Book Store. Everyday low prices and free delivery on eligible orders.
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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.
A black-and-white photograph of seabirds flying above a calm sea. Gentle waves roll toward the shore beneath a pale sky. In the centre of the image, handwritten-style text reads “#LIFTTOTHESKY,” with “@thebrokenspine.co.uk” beneath it. The Broken Spine fountain pen logo appears in the top right corner.
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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
Black book cover for Twentyseven by Alan Parry. At the centre is an illustrated classical stone head of a bearded man, surrounded by deep red roses, dark foliage and an ornate circular frame. The title appears in tall cream lettering at the top, with Alan Parry’s name beneath. The Broken Spine logo appears in white at the bottom.
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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.
A dark still-life photograph of old handwritten letters and envelopes layered across a surface, some decorated with postage marks and small pressed-flower designs. The Broken Spine logo appears at the top left and @thebrokenspine.co.uk at the top right. White text at the bottom reads: “Read Repost Reply #POEMSABOUT #DEADLETTERS”.
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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
Cream, distressed collage-style workshop poster. Large burgundy text reads “The Poetry of Cultural Debris”, followed by “A Writing Workshop with Alan Parry”. Torn-paper imagery spills across the design, including a cassette tape, vinyl record, microphone, keyboard, retro television, joystick, football, typewriter, wrestling ring, handwritten letter, lips and other fragments of pop culture and memory. The Broken Spine logo appears in the upper right.
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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
Black book cover for Twentyseven by Alan Parry. At the centre is an illustrated classical stone head of a bearded man, surrounded by deep red roses, dark foliage and an ornate circular frame. The title appears in tall cream lettering at the top, with Alan Parry’s name beneath. The Broken Spine logo appears in white at the bottom.
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The Broken Spine (SUBS OPEN) @thebrokenspine.co.uk · 19/09/2026
A poetry book doesn't become irrelevant because its launch week ended. We're going back through The Broken Spine catalogue and putting books we believe in back in front of readers. First up: AFTER HOURS: BEAT CULTURE MADE NEW. Published before. Worth reading now.
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After Hours: Beat Culture Made New: 1 (The Broken Spine: Thematic Slimline Poetry Anthologies): Amazon.co.uk: Parry, Alan: 9798324375980: Books
Buy After Hours: Beat Culture Made New: 1 (The Broken Spine: Thematic Slimline Poetry Anthologies) by Parry, Alan (ISBN: 9798324375980) from Amazon's Book Store. Everyday low prices and free delivery on eligible orders.
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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
Cream, distressed collage-style workshop poster. Large burgundy text reads “The Poetry of Cultural Debris”, followed by “A Writing Workshop with Alan Parry”. Torn-paper imagery spills across the design, including a cassette tape, vinyl record, microphone, keyboard, retro television, joystick, football, typewriter, wrestling ring, handwritten letter, lips and other fragments of pop culture and memory. The Broken Spine logo appears in the upper right.
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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.
A black stray dog stands in a narrow, cluttered outdoor passage beside a rust-red corrugated metal wall, looking directly towards the camera. The Broken Spine logo appears at the top left and @thebrokenspine.co.uk at the top right. White text at the bottom reads: “Read Repost Reply #POEMSABOUT #STRAYS”.
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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
Cream, distressed collage-style workshop poster. Large burgundy text reads “The Poetry of Cultural Debris”, followed by “A Writing Workshop with Alan Parry”. Torn-paper imagery spills across the design, including a cassette tape, vinyl record, microphone, keyboard, retro television, joystick, football, typewriter, wrestling ring, handwritten letter, lips and other fragments of pop culture and memory. The Broken Spine logo appears in the upper right.
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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
Black book cover for Twentyseven by Alan Parry. At the centre is an illustrated classical stone head of a bearded man, surrounded by deep red roses, dark foliage and an ornate circular frame. The title appears in tall cream lettering at the top, with Alan Parry’s name beneath. The Broken Spine logo appears in white at the bottom.
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The Broken Spine (SUBS OPEN) @thebrokenspine.co.uk · 17/09/2026
AFTER HOURS isn't interested in resurrecting the 1950s. The Beats already happened. We're interested in what survived them: restlessness, introspection, social criticism, experimentation and the suspicion that poetry should risk something.
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After Hours: Beat Culture Made New: 1 (The Broken Spine: Thematic Slimline Poetry Anthologies): Amazon.co.uk: Parry, Alan: 9798324375980: Books
Buy After Hours: Beat Culture Made New: 1 (The Broken Spine: Thematic Slimline Poetry Anthologies) by Parry, Alan (ISBN: 9798324375980) from Amazon's Book Store. Everyday low prices and free delivery on eligible orders.
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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.
A black stray dog stands in a narrow, cluttered outdoor passage beside a rust-red corrugated metal wall, looking directly towards the camera. The Broken Spine logo appears at the top left and @thebrokenspine.co.uk at the top right. White text at the bottom reads: “Read Repost Reply #POEMSABOUT #STRAYS”.
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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
Cream, distressed collage-style workshop poster. Large burgundy text reads “The Poetry of Cultural Debris”, followed by “A Writing Workshop with Alan Parry”. Torn-paper imagery spills across the design, including a cassette tape, vinyl record, microphone, keyboard, retro television, joystick, football, typewriter, wrestling ring, handwritten letter, lips and other fragments of pop culture and memory. The Broken Spine logo appears in the upper right.
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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
Cream, distressed collage-style workshop poster. Large burgundy text reads “The Poetry of Cultural Debris”, followed by “A Writing Workshop with Alan Parry”. Torn-paper imagery spills across the design, including a cassette tape, vinyl record, microphone, keyboard, retro television, joystick, football, typewriter, wrestling ring, handwritten letter, lips and other fragments of pop culture and memory. The Broken Spine logo appears in the upper right.
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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
Black book cover for Twentyseven by Alan Parry. At the centre is an illustrated classical stone head of a bearded man, surrounded by deep red roses, dark foliage and an ornate circular frame. The title appears in tall cream lettering at the top, with Alan Parry’s name beneath. The Broken Spine logo appears in white at the bottom.
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The Broken Spine (SUBS OPEN) @thebrokenspine.co.uk · 15/09/2026
What would Beat poetry look like if it started now? Different streets. Different politics. Different dangers. Probably the same refusal to shut up and behave. AFTER HOURS: BEAT CULTURE MADE NEW.
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Buy After Hours: Beat Culture Made New: 1 (The Broken Spine: Thematic Slimline Poetry Anthologies) by Parry, Alan (ISBN: 9798324375980) from Amazon's Book Store. Everyday low prices and free delivery on eligible orders.
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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.
A black stray dog stands in a narrow, cluttered outdoor passage beside a rust-red corrugated metal wall, looking directly towards the camera. The Broken Spine logo appears at the top left and @thebrokenspine.co.uk at the top right. White text at the bottom reads: “Read Repost Reply #POEMSABOUT #STRAYS”.
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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
Cream, distressed collage-style workshop poster. Large burgundy text reads “The Poetry of Cultural Debris”, followed by “A Writing Workshop with Alan Parry”. Torn-paper imagery spills across the design, including a cassette tape, vinyl record, microphone, keyboard, retro television, joystick, football, typewriter, wrestling ring, handwritten letter, lips and other fragments of pop culture and memory. The Broken Spine logo appears in the upper right.
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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.
A black-and-white photograph of seabirds flying above a calm sea. Gentle waves roll toward the shore beneath a pale sky. In the centre of the image, handwritten-style text reads “#LIFTTOTHESKY,” with “@thebrokenspine.co.uk” beneath it. The Broken Spine fountain pen logo appears in the top right corner.
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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
Cream, distressed collage-style workshop poster. Large burgundy text reads “The Poetry of Cultural Debris”, followed by “A Writing Workshop with Alan Parry”. Torn-paper imagery spills across the design, including a cassette tape, vinyl record, microphone, keyboard, retro television, joystick, football, typewriter, wrestling ring, handwritten letter, lips and other fragments of pop culture and memory. The Broken Spine logo appears in the upper right.
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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
Black book cover for Twentyseven by Alan Parry. At the centre is an illustrated classical stone head of a bearded man, surrounded by deep red roses, dark foliage and an ornate circular frame. The title appears in tall cream lettering at the top, with Alan Parry’s name beneath. The Broken Spine logo appears in white at the bottom.
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The Broken Spine (SUBS OPEN) @thebrokenspine.co.uk · 13/09/2026
Poetry books should be objects you want to own. AFTER HOURS was designed by Alan Parry and Andrew James Lloyd, with cover artwork by KurArt. A book made to look as deliberate as the poetry inside it.
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Buy After Hours: Beat Culture Made New: 1 (The Broken Spine: Thematic Slimline Poetry Anthologies) by Parry, Alan (ISBN: 9798324375980) from Amazon's Book Store. Everyday low prices and free delivery on eligible orders.
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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.
A black stray dog stands in a narrow, cluttered outdoor passage beside a rust-red corrugated metal wall, looking directly towards the camera. The Broken Spine logo appears at the top left and @thebrokenspine.co.uk at the top right. White text at the bottom reads: “Read Repost Reply #POEMSABOUT #STRAYS”.
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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
Cream, distressed collage-style workshop poster. Large burgundy text reads “The Poetry of Cultural Debris”, followed by “A Writing Workshop with Alan Parry”. Torn-paper imagery spills across the design, including a cassette tape, vinyl record, microphone, keyboard, retro television, joystick, football, typewriter, wrestling ring, handwritten letter, lips and other fragments of pop culture and memory. The Broken Spine logo appears in the upper right.
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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
Black book cover for Twentyseven by Alan Parry. At the centre is an illustrated classical stone head of a bearded man, surrounded by deep red roses, dark foliage and an ornate circular frame. The title appears in tall cream lettering at the top, with Alan Parry’s name beneath. The Broken Spine logo appears in white at the bottom.
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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
Cream, distressed collage-style workshop poster. Large burgundy text reads “The Poetry of Cultural Debris”, followed by “A Writing Workshop with Alan Parry”. Torn-paper imagery spills across the design, including a cassette tape, vinyl record, microphone, keyboard, retro television, joystick, football, typewriter, wrestling ring, handwritten letter, lips and other fragments of pop culture and memory. The Broken Spine logo appears in the upper right.
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The Broken Spine (SUBS OPEN) @thebrokenspine.co.uk · 11/09/2026
Edited by Alan Parry, AFTER HOURS: BEAT CULTURE MADE NEW gathers poets looking backwards without living there. The point isn't nostalgia. It's what happens when an old literary rebellion meets new lives, new anxieties and new reasons to refuse.
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Buy After Hours: Beat Culture Made New: 1 (The Broken Spine: Thematic Slimline Poetry Anthologies) by Parry, Alan (ISBN: 9798324375980) from Amazon's Book Store. Everyday low prices and free delivery on eligible orders.
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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.
Black-and-white photograph of a rough rock face split by a deep, dark vertical crack running down its centre. The Broken Spine logo is at the top left and @thebrokenspine.co.uk at the top right. White text at the bottom reads: “Read Repost Reply #POEMSABOUT #FAULTLINES”.
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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
Cream, distressed collage-style workshop poster. Large burgundy text reads “The Poetry of Cultural Debris”, followed by “A Writing Workshop with Alan Parry”. Torn-paper imagery spills across the design, including a cassette tape, vinyl record, microphone, keyboard, retro television, joystick, football, typewriter, wrestling ring, handwritten letter, lips and other fragments of pop culture and memory. The Broken Spine logo appears in the upper right.
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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.
Black-and-white photograph of a rough rock face split by a deep, dark vertical crack running down its centre. The Broken Spine logo is at the top left and @thebrokenspine.co.uk at the top right. White text at the bottom reads: “Read Repost Reply #POEMSABOUT #FAULTLINES”.
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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
Black book cover for Twentyseven by Alan Parry. At the centre is an illustrated classical stone head of a bearded man, surrounded by deep red roses, dark foliage and an ornate circular frame. The title appears in tall cream lettering at the top, with Alan Parry’s name beneath. The Broken Spine logo appears in white at the bottom.
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