When the Poet Becomes the Product
Alan Parry
June 7, 2026
Perhaps that’s why I find so much contemporary literary advice frustrating. An extraordinary amount of energy is spent teaching writers how to
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).
Perhaps that’s why I find so much contemporary literary advice frustrating. An extraordinary amount of energy is spent teaching writers how to
I didn’t come to poetry because I wanted a profile, a brand, or a place within a literary scene. Like many people,
Rating: * * * Ralf Little delivered a solid performance in John Le Carre’s spy novel which navigated the terrain of Cold
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.