Poem from issue #1 of The Broken Spine Artist Collective Bruach Kandinsky-Mhor lives by a loch. His poems have most recently appeared in Ink, Sweat and Tears, Ekphrastic Review, Re-Side, Morphrog, The Lake, Plumwood Mountain, Poetry Village and Emerald (Monstrous Regiment, Edinburgh).
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The Broken Spine is a poetry and arts collective proudly published on the coastal edge of North-West England. Founded in 2019 by Alan Parry and Paul Robert Mullen – two school friends reunited after twenty years through a mutual love of poetry.
