This is for today’s #vss365 and anyone who experienced the exhilaration of Troy Parrott’s goal for Ireland yesterday #Speirgorm

A poem for #vss365 about yet another housing plan in Ireland, all the broken ones before it, and the new voice in the Áras. #speirgorm

As my beloved Constantinople is often called the city of the worlds desire, here’s another for #PoemsAbout #Desire @thebrokenspine.co.uk

This Steve Reich inspired poem fits today’s #vss365

Knowest thou not, O Fairies' lord! How much by us contemn'd, abhorr'd, Whatever hides the female form That cannot bear the mortal storm? William Blake, The Rossetti Manuscript #BookWormSat

Roman Emperor Hadrian loved a young man named Antinous. History turned their passion into rumour #PoemsAbout #Desire @thebrokenspine.co.uk @alanparrywriter.co.uk

Here’s today’s #vss365

A different sort of war for #BookWormSat “The history of all hitherto existing society is the history of class struggles.“ The Communist Manifesto (Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels)

Here’s on older one for today’s #vss365

I posted this earlier in the week but it works for one for the #LockedDoors of knowledge that some of us experience #Poems About @alanparrywriter.co.uk @thebrokenspine.co.uk

The agency of women is often seen as a fatal flaw in history and myth #vss365

Here’s one for #PoemsAbout #LockedDoors @alanparrywriter.co.uk @thebrokenspine.co.uk

My memory of education for this #vss365

The story of D.J. Carey (one of the greatest hurlers of all time) is one of brilliance and downfall, a modern tragedy of fame, trust, and hubris. #Speirgorm

Here’s one for #vss365

Here’s a creature for today’s #vss365

This one also seems appropriate for today’s #vss365

Here’s one for today’s #vss365

“Death must be so beautiful. To lie in the soft brown earth, with the grasses waving above one's head, and listen to silence. To have no yesterday, and no to-morrow. To forget time, to forget life, to be at peace. ” Oscar Wilde, The Canterville Ghost #BookWormSat

Do we know the true cost of our phones #PoemsAbout #Blood @alanparrywriter.co.uk @thebrokenspine.co.uk

Returning to Ancient Rome for this #vss365

This #vss365 is inspired by Peter Singer’s “drowning child” thought experiment on moral obligation and proximity.

For @victoriaspires.bsky.social thanks for the #promptcombo on #dreamlogic as it got me to rewrite this

I think we all know the creep in this #vss365

Here’s one for #vss365

Looks like it’s time to update this one #Speirgorm

“Good evening. Mine is a faint voice. Kindly tune accordingly. It will not be raised, nor lowered, whatever happens.” Samuel Becket, Ghost Trio #BookWormSat

This is an older poem based on the experience of Amanda Knox but it’s a familiar pattern #PoemsAbout #BurnForTheCamera @alanparrywriter.co.uk @thebrokenspine.co.uk

What does the gaze erase? This traces disappearance through exposure, each frame a small cremation, each flash a forgetting. The dark room is inside us. #PoemsAbout #BurnForTheCamera Thanks to @alanparrywriter.co.uk @thebrokenspine.co.uk

My initial thoughts on the not guilty Soldier F verdict #Speirgorm

Here’s one for today’s #vss365

The atom is not solid, just a cloud of possibility. Perhaps the self is the same. This looks inward, where matter and meaning blur. #vss365

Here’s one for today’s #vss365

We smash the old gods. Then carve new ones from the rubble. Inspired by the Byzantine iconoclasts, this poem is about what comes after we break the mould, when belief reforms itself in the dust, and beauty refuses to stay buried. #PoemsAbout #BreaktheMould @alanparrywriter.co.uk@thebrokenspine.co.uk

This #vss365 is inspired by the great Luis Buñuel

This #vss365 is inspired by the glorious Undertones song of the same name

Here’s my contribution to #SmearTheBejaysus

As it’s #BookshopDay here’s a revised version of my poem on the Dublin bookshop Chapters @chaptersbookstore.bsky.social

Here’s to the imperfect, the mislabeled, the beautifully unfitting. This piece is for all of us who will not be named by other people’s judgment. #PoemsAbout #ImperfectMe Thanks to @alanparrywriter.co.uk and this wonderful community @thebrokenspine.co.uk

Today’s #vss365 is about the great Irish revolutionary James Connolly #speirgorm

This one seems appropriate for today’s #vss365

Here’s one for today’s #vss365

“In the end there is left a life groveling and curtailed, worthless and trivial.“ The Lady With the Dog, Anton Pavlovich Chekhov #BookWormSat

Hans Bellmer made surreal and unsettling dolls in the 1930s, bodies broken, reassembled, uncanny. But here, the doll has her own voice. #PoemsAbout #Mannequin Thanks to @alanparrywriter.co.uk @thebrokenspine.co.uk

Here’s a bit of fun for #NationalPoetryDay

Today’s #vss365

Here’s one for today’s #vss365

Today’s #vss365 uses the earlier meaning of sublimation, to transform by fire to look at the sublimation of desire

RIP Tony Harrison. A poet who made the sonnet snarl, who gave working-class England its lyric voice, and who never flinched from truth. His words will keep ringing. He taught us that poetry could fight, console, and never apologise.