1st place 🥇 #fragmentsfriday @helenlaycock.bsky.social #poetry #poetsofbluesky

#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.

Hello @blackboughpoetry.bsky.social and @matthewmcsmith.bsky.social👋 Here's my #micropoem for #fragmentsfriday

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

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

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.

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

#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.

In cities or far away, I cannot help thinking about Gower and the wild coasts of South Wales. A haunting. ‘Water has its own life’. #poem #poetry #rivers #water #gower

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

Poets would you like to supercharge the next 12 months in your writing? Join ‘Crafting Your Year in Poetry’ on Sunday 27th Sept, 6 - 9pm. shorturl.at/MAztf #poetry #writing #writersofinstagram #writers #workshops

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.

Thrilled and honoured that @mosspuppymag.bsky.social have nominated my poem for @bestofthenet.bsky.social! A lovely surprise and a real honour. Huge thanks to the editors for this wonderful recognition! 🐶

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.

Our #SilverBranch feature for August, Cardiff writer @elizafevwrites.bsky.social #poet #poetry www.blackboughpoetry.com/august-26-el...

Thrilled and honoured that @mosspuppymag.bsky.social have nominated my poem for @bestofthenet.bsky.social! A lovely surprise and a real honour. Huge thanks to the editors for this wonderful recognition! 🐶

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

1st place 🥇 #fragmentsfriday #poetry Dorian Nightingale

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

What did your house smell like? What was always on television? What did your dad keep in the garage? What couldn't your family afford? What did you pretend not to want? Objects aren't decoration. They know things about us. Come and interrogate them. shorturl.at/IZ5TX

They tell you not to meet your heroes. Nobody tells you what to do when you outlive them. For Alan Parry He/Him it was Jim Morrison. 27 looks at the distance between youthful obsession and the writer you become afterwards. Foreword by Matthew M C Smith shorturl.at/FnHJS

27 poems. Because some ages become numbers and some deaths become mythology. For Alan Parry He/Him it was Jim Morrison who provided the spark: life, work, sexuality, landscape, myth. Reimagined after the years passed. Foreword by Matthew M C Smith shorturl.at/FnHJS

Hello @blackboughpoetry.bsky.social and @matthewmcsmith.bsky.social👋 Here's my #micropoem for #fragmentsfriday

Want to lift writers in the indie poetry world? Read them. AFTER HOURS brings established and emerging poets together to drag the restless spirit of Beat writing into the present. Published before. Worth reading now. shorturl.at/ETO6h

Joint third place on #Fragmentsfriday @andywilliamson.com and @pollyoliverwales.bsky.social

What useless thing have you remembered for twenty years? On 20 September, The Broken Spine presents The Poetry of Cultural Debris, an online writing workshop exploring pop culture, memory & the ordinary things we can’t quite forget. Come make poems from the junk. #PoemsAbout shorturl.at/NTneI

The Poetry of Cultural Debris - A Writing Workshop

Turn cultural debris into poetry: use everyday objects, pop culture and memory to generate, craft, draft and revise compelling new work.

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Loving dipping our toes back into poetry workshops. Alan brings years of professional teaching experience, & his workshops have always had fantastic feedback. We’re keeping them accessible too: free Cost of Living places, concessions, General Admission & Supporter tickets. #BadTaste coming soon!

Alan Parry He/Him@alanparrywriter.co.uk · 3w ago

Already in development... The follow-up to The Poetry of Cultural Debris is taking shape. BAD TASTE A Poetry Workshop in Misbehaving Precisely What happens to poetry when we stop trying to demonstrate good taste? Good taste can make bad poems. Booking opens soon.

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Hello @blackboughpoetry.bsky.social and @matthewmcsmith.bsky.social👋 Here's my #micropoem for #fragmentsfriday

Some people are never happy enough and drain the room. Many times it’s justified and other times it’s relentless negativity. Emotional vampires. #fragmentsfriday #poetry #writing #amwriting