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
One half of the most successful songwriting partnership in history (Lennon/McCartney), writer of a whopping 32 songs that have topped the Billboard Hot 100, recipient of an Academy Award, a Primetime Emmy Award, eighteen Grammy Awards, and appointments as a Member of the Order of the British Empire in 1965 and a knighthood in 1997 for services to music, Sir Paul McCartney needs no introduction. Songwriter extraordinaire, proud Scouser and all-round good egg, Macca has made chart topping music for over six decades and recently played a career defining three hour headline slot at Glastonbury, aged 80. He’s made some of our most enduring, heartfelt and treasured contemporary recordings, and this playlist focuses on his post-Beatles career in Wings and as a solo artist, covering amazing albums such as McCartney, Ram, Band On The Run, Flaming Pie and Chaos And Creation In The Back Yard.
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,
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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.