Alan Parry He/Him (@alanparrywriter.co.uk)

@markantonyowen.com Sep 22, 2026, 12:08 PMReposted by @alanparrywriter.co.uk

Looking forward to it! Always great to hear @alanparrywriter.co.uk read his work – and I love an opportunity to air mine occasionally. 😁

@merrildsmith.bsky.social Sep 20, 2026, 4:25 PMReposted by @alanparrywriter.co.uk

I just spent my morning at this workshop, and it was well-worth it! Thank you so much @alanparrywriter.co.uk

@survivors-poetry.bsky.social Sep 9, 2026, 7:37 AMReposted by @alanparrywriter.co.uk

Coming up in two weeks time, Tuesday 22 September, Survivors Poetry Zoom Party, with @alanparrywriter.co.uk and @throwawayreg.bsky.social a featured poet double bill for the Ages. And open mic spoken word and music, of course 🥰 Ping us if you are for any reason not signed up to the mailing list 🙏❤️

@coastalpoet.bsky.social Sep 8, 2026, 9:07 PMReposted by @alanparrywriter.co.uk

@thebrokenspine.co.uk On that note, this also connects meaningfully to your Poetics of Cultural Debris.

@philippabowe.bsky.social Sep 6, 2026, 6:04 PMReposted by @alanparrywriter.co.uk

Sunday offering for #PoemsAbout and the #SheddingSkins prompt. Thanks to @thebrokenspine.co.uk and @alanparrywriter.co.uk 💜

Pale blue box with the words of a prose poem:

The Snaking of Icarus

The Icarus who plummeted, tasted the salt of the sea that took his name long after it coffined him, was not the end-of-the-story Icarus, but instead the skin he shed in the Helios scorch, the skin he shed to feed our thirst for the tragic dénouement, the narrative-wrapped moral, leaving him skinless and free and light, another Icarus who journeyed to the heart of the sun where he grew quietly old growing flowers of flame, writing odes to the sky in the sand, never regretting the celebrity of discarded and drowned flesh and wings.

@alanparrywriter.co.uk Aug 31, 2026, 3:41 PM

I want your dead formats.
VHS. MiniDisc. Burned CDs. Nokia ringtones. Songs taped off Radio 1.
Not for nostalgia.
I want to know who you were when they mattered.
“The workshop gave me permission to write fearlessly.” — Paul Short
20 Sept.
shorturl.at/K3JoV

@alanparrywriter.co.uk Aug 29, 2026, 7:00 PM

You don’t get to build a moral high ground out of a trapdoor.

@thebrokenspine.co.uk Aug 28, 2026, 9:03 PMReposted by @alanparrywriter.co.uk

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!

@alanparrywriter.co.uk Aug 28, 2026, 8:57 PM

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.

@alanparrywriter.co.uk Aug 28, 2026, 8:08 PM

What useless thing have you remembered for twenty years?

On 20 September, I’m running 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