iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

The Broken Spine (SUBS OPEN) @thebrokenspine.co.uk · 04/10/2026

This isn't Gatsby fan fiction. BEAUTIFUL LITTLE FOOLS treats the novel as cultural evidence. Class. Labour. Sex. Money. Desire. Myth. Cut the seams. Steal the thread. Make something new. Edited by Alan Parry He/Him & Karen Pierce Gonzalez shorturl.at/126Ks

061

The Broken Spine (SUBS OPEN) @thebrokenspine.co.uk · 04/10/2026

Next up: #Bites. Teeth. Hunger. Desire. Warning. The mark left afterwards. And all the things capable of biting without having a mouth. New theme begins Friday. Don’t post early. Use Alt Text. Tag #PoemsAbout. Read. Repost. Reply.

083

The Broken Spine (SUBS OPEN) @thebrokenspine.co.uk · 02/10/2026

Remember books? Weight in your hands. Paper beneath your fingers. A cover you keep looking at. Poems you return to. BEAUTIFUL LITTLE FOOLS is a proper hardback made to last. Edited by Alan Parry He/Him & Karen Pierce Gonzalez shorturl.at/126Ks

1125

The Broken Spine (SUBS OPEN) @thebrokenspine.co.uk · 02/10/2026

#PoemsAbout #Rot is live. Let something stink. Post from today through Thursday. Tag #PoemsAbout. Use Alt Text. #TakeRisks #EndOnAnImage #AvoidCliché Read 3+. Repost. Reply.

0115

The Broken Spine (SUBS OPEN) @thebrokenspine.co.uk · 01/10/2026

Tomorrow: #PoemsAbout #Rot. Forget fresh flowers. Give us the vase a fortnight later. Don’t post before Friday. Tag #PoemsAbout. Use Alt Text.

083

The Broken Spine (SUBS OPEN) @thebrokenspine.co.uk · 30/09/2026

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

091

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.

0146

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

160

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.

03223

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

021

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.

0168

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

221

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.

0138

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

042

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.

0149

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

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

031

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

160

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.

0148

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

081

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

051

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

030

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.

0106

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

0145

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

011

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.

095

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

084

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

010

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

032

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.

0128

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

192

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

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

040

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

0169

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

151

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.

0139

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

030

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

000

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

070

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.

063

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

072

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.

064

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

040

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

Your poem does not become less serious because somebody in it is eating a Findus Crispy Pancake. Thank you for attending our TED Talk. For the considerably longer version: THE POETRY OF CULTURAL DEBRIS 20 September Online shorturl.at/IZ5TX

071

The Broken Spine (SUBS OPEN) @thebrokenspine.co.uk · 08/09/2026

We could run the same successful workshops forever. Change the date. Dust off the slides. Collect the money. No. The Broken Spine wants to experiment again. THE POETRY OF CULTURAL DEBRIS is new. If you want us making new things, come and make this one work. shorturl.at/IZ5TX

064

The Broken Spine (SUBS OPEN) @thebrokenspine.co.uk · 08/09/2026

#PoemsAbout #FaultLines starts Friday. Write what happens under pressure. The hairline crack. The old division. The thing everybody stepped over until the ground moved. Draft now. Share from Friday. Tag #PoemsAbout. Use Alt Text.

12013

The Broken Spine (SUBS OPEN) @thebrokenspine.co.uk · 07/09/2026

27 isn't about putting on leather trousers and pretending it's 1967. It's response, not impersonation. For Alan Parry He/Him it was Jim Morrison whose imagery, sexuality and restless poetics demanded an answer decades later. Foreword by Matthew M C Smith shorturl.at/FnHJS

052

The Broken Spine (SUBS OPEN) @thebrokenspine.co.uk · 07/09/2026

A battered cassette can contain: music class desire technology a bedroom a friendship a dead parent a first kiss 1996 the person you thought you'd become That's why we're spending four hours writing about cultural debris. shorturl.at/IZ5TX

040

The Broken Spine (SUBS OPEN) @thebrokenspine.co.uk · 06/09/2026

Somewhere along the line, writers got the idea that poetry needed permission to mention EastEnders. It doesn't. Nor does it need permission to mention Pokémon, Pot Noodles, Match of the Day, Tammy Girl or a Nokia 3210. Your culture is material. Use it. shorturl.at/IZ5TX

1125