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Independent poetry press + cultural review platform. We publish narrative-led work with edge. #PoemsAbout #LiftToTheSky #WednesdayWIPs
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@thebrokenspine.co.uk“opulence, pearlescence, obsession”
Then:
“it’s only oyster snot, that’s all.”
From “Random Arms” by Laura Cooney.
Beauty. Value. Desire. Illusion.
BEAUTIFUL LITTLE FOOLS.
Edited by Alan Parry He/Him & Karen Pierce Gonzalez
@thebrokenspine.co.ukAngela Graham. Clive Matson. Amaleena Damlé. Just some of the voices gathered in LAST LIGHT: APOCALYPSE POETRY. Different poets. Different endings. One uncomfortable question: What have we done?
@thebrokenspine.co.uk#PoemsAbout #Bites is live.
Bare your teeth.
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@thebrokenspine.co.ukWe wanted BEAUTIFUL LITTLE FOOLS to look gorgeous.
Of course we did. It's a book about glamour.
But glamour gets interesting when you ask what it's hiding.
A beautiful hardback with teeth.
Edited by Alan Parry He/Him & Karen Pierce Gonzalez
@thebrokenspine.co.ukThere can be beauty at the end. That's what makes it worse. LAST LIGHT moves between environmental devastation, personal loss and the strange beauty of final things. Poetry standing at the edge and refusing to look away.
@thebrokenspine.co.ukTomorrow: #PoemsAbout #Bites.
What sank its teeth into you?
Better question: what did you bite back?
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@thebrokenspine.co.uk“Bones of child labor
thrown away –
unbeautiful
uneasy”
From “Decadence Built This” by Karen Pierce Gonzalez
Look at the glitter. Then look at who paid for it.
Edited by Alan Parry He/Him & Karen Pierce Gonzalez
@thebrokenspine.co.ukWhat do you save when the world is ending? Who? What do you regret? And what if the thing destroying it was us all along? LAST LIGHT: APOCALYPSE POETRY, edited by Alan Parry.
@thebrokenspine.co.uk#PoemsAbout #Bites starts Friday.
Love bites. Winter bites. Words bite. Animals bite. Hunger makes its own rules.
Show us the teeth — or just the mark they left.
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@thebrokenspine.co.uk#LiftToTheSky Monday asks for generosity, not perfection.
@thebrokenspine.co.ukThis 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
@thebrokenspine.co.ukWant to lift writers in the indie poetry world?
Read them.
LAST LIGHT brings contemporary poets together to stare directly at endings — environmental, societal and deeply personal.
Small presses publish the books nobody else will.
Read them.
@thebrokenspine.co.ukNext 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.
@metaphorqu.bsky.socialReposted by @thebrokenspine.co.ukHe needs to have a look at #PoemsAbout from @thebrokenspine.co.uk every Friday on this site for inspiration. Nb reading poetry doesn't usually take as much sustained concentration as reading a novel .....Unless it's Paradise Lost or something..
@thebrokenspine.co.ukThe apocalypse doesn't have to arrive with a mushroom cloud.
Sometimes it is environmental collapse.
Sometimes a society ending.
Sometimes one person's world disappearing while everybody else's carries on.
LAST LIGHT: APOCALYPSE POETRY.
@thebrokenspine.co.ukRemember 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
@thebrokenspine.co.uk#PoemsAbout #Rot is live.
Let something stink.
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@thebrokenspine.co.ukIf you like our #PoemsAbout prompts, you should be reading the poets we publish.
#BlackSky. #NoFuture. #AfterTheSirens. #WhatRemains. #EndOfSummer.
LAST LIGHT lives somewhere beyond all of them.
Apocalypse poetry for uncertain times.
@thebrokenspine.co.ukTomorrow: #PoemsAbout #Rot.
Forget fresh flowers.
Give us the vase a fortnight later.
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@thebrokenspine.co.ukSome 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
