#PoemsAbout #ThriftStore starts Friday. Old photographs. Worn jackets. Coffee-stained paperbacks. Things discarded. Things discovered. We favour vivid imagery over explanation. Draft now. Use Alt Text.
The Broken Spine (SUBS OPEN)
@thebrokenspine.co.uk
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 https://linktr.ee/brokenspinearts
Last week's poets brought it. This week: #PoemsAbout #ThriftStore. Every object belonged to someone. Every shelf holds a history. Theme opens Friday. Use Alt Text.
#PoemsAbout #LastTrain is live. Post through Thursday. We favour image-driven poems, emotional honesty, working-class grit, sharp endings, and work that avoids cliché. #TakeRisks #EndOnAnImage. Read 3+, repost, reply. Use Alt Text.
Tomorrow: #PoemsAbout #LastTrain. Write the moment before the doors close. The thing left unsaid. The person left behind. Theme opens tomorrow. Use Alt Text.
#PoemsAbout #LastTrain starts Friday. Empty platforms. Flickering signs. A suitcase. A goodbye. The last seat home. We favour vivid imagery over explanation. Draft now. Use Alt Text.
Last week's poets brought it. This week: #PoemsAbout #LastTrain. Last chances. Missed chances. Departures you can never take back. Theme opens Friday. Use Alt Text.
#PoemsAbout #BadHabits is live. Post through Thursday. We favour image-driven poems, emotional honesty, working-class grit, sharp endings, and work that avoids cliché. #TakeRisks #EndOnAnImage. Read 3+, repost, reply. Use Alt Text.
A new Broken Spine workshop is in development. The Poetry of Cultural Debris will explore how mixtapes, cinema tickets, obsolete technology, childhood toys, half-remembered sitcoms & other pop-cultural remnants can become poems of memory, identity & private mythology. More soon.
Tomorrow: #PoemsAbout #BadHabits. Write the ritual. The excuse. The relapse. The thing waiting at the end of a long day. Theme opens tomorrow. Use Alt Text.
#PoemsAbout #BadHabits starts Friday. Cigarettes. Exes. Gambling. Doomscrolling. Old wounds picked clean. We favour vivid imagery over explanation. Draft now. Use Alt Text.
Last week's poets brought it. This week: #PoemsAbout #BadHabits. The things we swear we'll quit. The things that keep calling us back. Theme opens Friday. Use Alt Text.
#PoemsAbout #ExitWounds is live. Post through Thursday. We favour image-driven poems, emotional honesty, sharp endings, and work that avoids cliché. #TakeRisks #EndOnAnImage. Read 3+, repost, reply. Use Alt Text.
Tomorrow: #PoemsAbout #ExitWounds. Focus on what's left behind. The dent in the pillow. The silence after the argument. Theme opens tomorrow. Use Alt Text.
#PoemsAbout #ExitWounds starts Friday. A slammed door. An empty chair. A scar. A city after the crowd has gone. We favour vivid imagery over explanation. Draft now. Use Alt Text.
Last week's poets brought it. This week: #PoemsAbout #ExitWounds. Every departure leaves evidence. Theme opens Friday. Use Alt Text.
#PoemsAbout #PowerCut is live. Post through Thursday. We favour image-driven poems, emotional honesty, sharp endings, and work that avoids cliché. #TakeRisks #EndOnAnImage. Read 3+, repost, reply. Use Alt Text.
Tomorrow: #PoemsAbout #PowerCut. Write the moment the current fails. The fridge hum stops. The street disappears. Something else begins. Theme opens tomorrow. Use Alt Text.
#PoemsAbout #PowerCut starts Friday. Blackouts. Dead screens. Candlelight. Neighbours suddenly visible. We favour vivid imagery over explanation. Draft now. Use Alt Text.
Last week's poets brought it. This week: #PoemsAbout #PowerCut. Darkness. Silence. What remains when the lights go out? Theme opens Friday. Use Alt Text.
#PoemsAbout #CheapMotels is live. Post through Thursday. We favour image-driven poems, emotional honesty, working-class grit, sharp endings, and work that avoids cliché. #TakeRisks #EndOnAnImage. Read 3+, repost, reply. Use Alt Text.
Tomorrow: #PoemsAbout #CheapMotels. Write what happened between check-in and checkout. The stain on the carpet. The note left behind. Theme opens tomorrow. Use Alt Text.
#PoemsAbout #CheapMotels starts Friday. Cigarette burns. Ice machines. Checkout times. Lovers passing through. We favour vivid imagery over explanation. Draft now. Use Alt Text.
Last week's poets brought it. This week: #PoemsAbout #CheapMotels. Temporary rooms. Permanent mistakes. Thin walls. Flickering signs. Theme opens Friday. Use Alt Text.
#PoemsAbout #TheLook is live. Post through Thursday. We favour image-driven poems, emotional honesty, queer voices, sharp endings, and work that avoids cliché. #TakeRisks #EndOnAnImage. Read 3+, repost, reply. Use Alt Text.