Description
This is the digital (PDF) edition of The Broken Spine Artist Collective: Third Edition, released in spring 2021. It was the first edition of the journal with a Guest Reader, the American writer and poet Kate Evans, who joined the editorial team for this issue.
Created against the backdrop of the COVID-19 pandemic and worldwide political unrest, the edition brings together poetry, photography and art from local, national and international contributors. It opens with a poem by Henry Normal, the BAFTA-winning co-creator of The Royle Family, and includes work by Liam Hayes, Marcelle Newbold, Matthew Duggan, Sarah Marquez, Eli Horan and Jenny Mitchell, with youth poet Tallulah Howarth alongside Jay Rafferty and Morag Anderson.
The journal was born in Southport and co-founded by former school friends Paul Robert Mullen and Alan Parry. The cover art is by Stuart Buck, who also designed the cover of Alan Parry’s chapbook Neon Ghosts.
NOTE: This is the digital edition in PDF format, no physical copy will be dispatched.
