Hello Friday, again, to everyone 🤓 #PoemsAbout #WhatRemains Thanks, too, to @alanparrywriter.co.uk & @thebrokenspine.co.uk

'Little Italy, Frith Street' by Jonathan Stewardson jonathanstewardson.com

'Spring Twilight', St Margarets (2021) by Ian Archie Beck ianarchiebeck.co.uk

British Steel set for nationalisation in King’s Speech. Entire steel industry needs to be nationalised, relies on public money. Govts own nothing. Privatisation failed in water, energy, rail, mail, elsewhere. People ripped-off, investment not made. Need economic reset. archive.ph/Muohb

1. 'The Boy at the Basin', Pimlico (1932) by William Dobell (Art Gallery of New South Wales)

#PoemsAbout #NamesNotNumbers @alanparrywriter.co.uk & @thebrokenspine.co.uk

Carol Nelson, contemporary US painter known for her landscapes #WomensArt

This piece is dedicated to the wax-eared benchmen of Ithaca. #afterthesirens #poemsabout #prose #poetry #writing #poem #homer #odyssey #literature #classics #reading #books

#PoemsAbout #AfterTheSirens thank you in advance for reading; responses & advice welcome @alanparrywriter.co.uk & @thebrokenspine.co.uk

#PoemsAbout #SignalLoss a short'un Thank you to everyone and @alanparrywriter.co.uk & @thebrokenspine.co.uk

Thames Water wants to set its own rules. The Board of Ofwat is split over whether to let them. Tip the scales in favour of people and planet: email the Board now, and urge them to reject Thames Water's creditors @weownit.org.uk tinyurl.com/85m396az&nbs...

#PoemsAbout #Gravity I struggle to produce every week - but here's an undigested fragment... Thank you to all and @alanparrywriter.co.uk & @thebrokenspine.co.uk

The Reckoning Comes on 7 May Labour is about to lose its cities. The Greens are the reason why. On 7 May 2026, the Labour Party is going to be evicted from the cities it has occupied for decades, not by the right, but by the left it abandoned. open.substack.com/pub/european...

Ministers are exploring triggering the break clause in Palantir's NHS contract. I've signed the open letter to Wes Streeting calling on him to get Palantir out of the NHS. www.foxglove.org.uk/campaigns/we...

#PoemsAbout #EdgeOfKnowing me - I know nothing, but thank you to @alanparrywriter.co.uk and @thebrokenspine.co.uk #poets #poetry #poems

'London, Winter' (1928) by Christopher RW Nevinson (London Museum)

'Setting Up The Roman', Bow (2025) by Lawrence Brand lawrencebrand.com

'Magnolia, Patterson Road', Crystal Palace by Roger Cromwell buyart.mallgalleries.org.uk/recent-exhib...

Good afternoon! This week's theme is Spring 🌷 ------- 'Islington Back Gardens, Early Spring' (2019) by Melissa Scott-Miller scottmillerart.com

the soft unguarding the shoulders coming back the mouth becoming its own idea again willingly warmly without translation the shape of yes arriving in the body all at once after the match is agreed upon willingly warmly without translation #poemsabout #consent #poetry #fragmentsfriday

#PoemsAbout #Consent Thank you @alanparrywriter.co.uk & @thebrokenspine.co.uk #poets #poetrycommunity #poetry #poems #blueskypoets #blueskypoetry #blueskypoets #poetsofbluesky

Beautifully rendered moment in time. I love how you move the "camera" around the crossing. The final lines are a great turn. My favorite line is “each zebra’s stripe the apogee,” and how captures her dogged stepwise effort.👏✨

Happy Friday #PoemsAbout friends. For this week’s #beingwatched I found myself thinking about those empty circles. @alanparrywriter.co.uk @thebrokenspine.co.uk #poetrycommunity #poetry #poems #blueskypoets #blueskypoetry

Sorry this has taken so long (in line with the theme, I guess) #PoemsAbout #BeingWatched Thank you @alanparrywriter.co.uk & @thebrokenspine.co.uk #poets #poetrycommunity #poetry #poems #blueskypoets #blueskypoetry #blueskypoets #poetsofbluesky

#PoemsAbout #UndertheSkin thanks to @alanparrywriter.co.uk @thebrokenspine.co.uk #poets #poetrycommunity #poetry #poems #blueskypoets #blueskypoetry #blueskypoets #poetsofbluesky

#poetry #larkin

For #PoemsAbout #Undressed. Many thanks @alanparrywriter.co.uk and @thebrokenspine.co.uk #poetrycommunity #poetry #poems #blueskypoets #blueskypoetry

#poemsabout #undressed @thebrokenspine.co.uk @alanparrywriter.co.uk #poems #poetry #poetrycommunity #poetsofbluesky #blueskypoetry #blueskypoets

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I'm so happy that the upcoming anthology The Havisham Steps: Modern Gothic Poetry from thebrokenspine.co.uk will include one of mine: "the map misread". Thank you for giving it the nod, Alan, @alanparrywriter.co.uk Pleased to swell in the company of such disparately talented poets! #PoetsofBlueSky

Can the Greens escape Labour's fatal trap? youtu.be/e7oKv3K48qM?...

The runners and riders, and viable outcomes www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2026/02... What next for Labour, and the country?

From svengali to sacked: Who is Morgan McSweeney, the prime minister's departed chief of staff?

🚨 BREAKING NEWS: U.K. Prime Minister Keir Starmer’s chief of staff, Morgan McSweeney, has resigned from government following the revelations about Peter Mandelson in the Epstein files. Full story: politi.co/4ttOa3i

On this day in 1898, French author and intellectual Emile Zola published "J’accuse!" It was an open letter on the front page of a liberal, Paris newspaper and it claimed – accurately – that the French military was covering up treason by a well-connected officer. #WriterSky #DreyfusAffair #Zionism

#PoemsAbout #Money @thebrokenspine.co.uk I will put a reading in the comments.

For #PoemsAbout #Money ✨ for @thebrokenspine.co.uk & @alanparrywriter.co.uk I guess what I am trying to say is that there are lots of things money can’t buy, such as love, or a home, or the feeling of being at home. Looking forward to reading everybody’s poems later tonight! ♡

Merry Christmas to all. For @alanparrywriter.co.uk @thebrokenspine.co.uk #PoemsAbout #Money:

Helen Dunmore was a British poet, novelist, short story, and children’s writer. She was born on the 12th of December 1952 and died on the 5th of June 2017. Here are her nine rules for writing fiction. www.writerswrite.co.za/helen-dunmor...

What can ordinary people do if the financial crash many economists fear is coming? In this video, I explain some practical, calm, and sensible steps to improve your financial resilience. These tips should help you think ahead when the government won’t. youtu.be/4Hp4mZ8DDNA?...

'Early Morning Frost, the garden, St Margarets' (2023) by Ian Archie Beck ianarchiebeck.co.uk

Thames Water is teetering but wants to pay £2.5m bonus to execs. Wants to bypass regulations by classifying bonuses as "retention payments". Prices rose by 31%+ this year. Sewage dumped in rivers, leaks unplugged. Privatisation = Abuses and insanity. archive.ph/zbbaQ

Minister defends 'pragmatic' U-turn on workers' rights. It was a manifesto pledge Why no 'pragmatic' U-turn' on nationalising water, energy, rail rolling stock companies and freight; ending privatisation of the NHS and social care; taxing the super rich?

@thebrokenspine.co.uk #PoemsAbout #NoFuture #ItWillDo Old Man Old Woman Holding hearts tight in the face of a final forever They won't last 'till Christmas Said their parents, sixty years ago.

Shocking that, all these years after Grenfell, businesses still use flammable materials on people's homes.

#poemsabout #NoFuture #KeepWriting @alanparrywriter.co.uk @thebrokenspine.co.uk #TakeRisks #EndOnAnImage #AvoidCliché #poetrycommunity #poetry #PoetsWhoSupportPoets #PoetsOfBlueSky knocked out quickly - interrupted by a person from Porlock gaps to be filled...