For Peter Devonald, poetry is a vivid act of attention. Not simply a way to reflect the world, but a way to intervene in it.
The Broken Spine invites submissions for Haze: Counterculture Poetry, the sixth instalment in our critically acclaimed slimline anthology series, following After Hours: Beat Culture Made
The indie lit scene is full of passion. Full of people doing it for the love — writing, publishing, reviewing, shouting into the void just
There is a challenge inherent in adapting any much-loved novel for the stage, in that you have to give the book’s aficionados something they recognise
How BOLD reclaims the narrative from Hornby hangovers and gives it back to the broken, beautiful, and brutally honest. I love Nick Hornby. I really
I’ve always believed the city speaks loudest when the world’s gone quiet. When the office lights blink out, the shutters roll down, and the streets
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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.
