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David Hanlon
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Cardiff poet. Best of the Net nominee. Author of two poetry collections - 'Spectrum of Flight' published in 2020 & 'Dawn's Incision' in 2024. Co-Poetry Editor @brokenspinearts.bsky.social
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David Hanlon @vespertine4.bsky.social · Feb 20
My latest poetry collection, Dawn's Incision, from @icefloepress.bsky.social - available here👇
vespertine4.bsky.social David Hanlon @vespertine4.bsky.social · Feb 18
"Copies of this contemplative, lyrical queer masterpiece of precise poetics, exploring love, loneliness, desire, eco-poetics, interiority, space, abjection, renewal and object silence, are now available from Ice Floe Press." @icefloepress.bsky.social

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David Hanlon – Dawn’s Incision Poems
NOW AVAILABLE FROM OUR PRESS BOOKSHOP!A COMPLEX 1ST FULL-LENGTH COLLECTION David Hanlon’s Dawn’s Incision Notes on Dawn’s Incision David’s book involves a deep journey into the se…
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"Marine Fish Casserole" by Karen Walker

“The table became elbow to elbow to elbow, and, to make room, I was shoved to the back of the highest cupboard.”

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marnie fish casserole — Blood+Honey
by Karen Walker “The table became elbow to elbow to elbow, and, to make room, I was shoved to the back of the highest cupboard.”
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January 28, 2026 at 5:03 AM
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thebrokenspine.co.uk
This Saturday, get ready for an unforgettable evening with The Broken Spine Live at The Grasshopper in Southport! 🎤 Featuring performances by Jay Rafferty, Martin Kennedy Yates, and hosted by Alan Parry He/Him Don't miss out! #PoetryAndPints #NorthWestWriters
Green poetry night flyer for The Broken Spine Live at The Grasshopper, Southport. Event date is Saturday 31.01.26, 19:00–21:00. Free entry. Featuring Jay Rafferty and Martin Kennedy Yates, hosted by Alan Parry. Open mic slots available. Bold white text on a deep green background with golden illustrations of a rose and a hand holding a pint glass.
January 28, 2026 at 7:00 AM
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blackboughpoetry.bsky.social
A reminder that if you have bought Christmas and winter anthology no 6 you can submit five, not 3 poems, for our submission call opening this Wednesday. That’s a thank you for support. Photo evidence required! 💝

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January 25, 2026 at 6:57 PM
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vespertine4.bsky.social
Thrilled to have a new poem published by @genrepunkmag.bsky.social 💜🖤 — check it out here:

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January 23, 2026 at 5:44 PM
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Thrilled to have a new poem published by @genrepunkmag.bsky.social 💜🖤 — check it out here:

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January 23, 2026 at 5:44 PM
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thebrokenspine.co.uk
Submissions close soon.

Don’t wait for the poem to become easier.
Send it because it isn’t.

#PoemsAbout #LiftToTheSky #WednesdayWIPs #SpineEdicts #PoetryCommunity #SubmissionWindow #OpenCall #Poetry
Call for Submissions: Poetry That Remembers, Mourns, and Refuses to Let Go - The Broken Spine
Submissions Open Throughout January 2026 | Publication Later That Year
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January 23, 2026 at 10:00 AM
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Also featuring the brilliant @katiejenkinspoet.bsky.social!
thebrokenspine.co.uk The Broken Spine (SUBS OPEN) @thebrokenspine.co.uk · 11d
Get ready for The Broken Spine live show at The Grasshopper, Southport! 🎤 Featuring Jay Rafferty, Martin Kennedy Yates, and hosted by Alan Parry He/Him 🕖 7–9pm, Free Entry. #PoetryAndPints #NorthWestWriters #LivePoetry
Green poetry night flyer for The Broken Spine Live at The Grasshopper, Southport. Event date is Saturday 31.01.26, 19:00–21:00. Free entry. Featuring Jay Rafferty and Martin Kennedy Yates, hosted by Alan Parry. Open mic slots available. Bold white text on a deep green background with golden illustrations of a rose and a hand holding a pint glass.
January 22, 2026 at 10:39 AM
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Grateful to have a prose poem published in Club Plum Lit's new issue! 💜

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January 17, 2026 at 5:09 PM
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Delighted to have one of my River Dove Sonnets featured in Januaries Glomag. Thank you, Glory:
January 18, 2026 at 12:52 PM
vespertine4.bsky.social
Just finished Peeling Apples by @alanparrywriter.co.uk and I’m blown away. Precise, sensitive writing—full of generosity and heart. This intimate novella deeply moved me; I couldn’t put it down. A beautiful, poignant story, rich in observation, imagery, and nostalgia ❤️
January 18, 2026 at 9:53 AM
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Grateful to have a prose poem published in Club Plum Lit's new issue! 💜

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January 17, 2026 at 5:09 PM
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#PoemsAbout #TimeSlips is live.

Write into the misalignment.
Moments replaying out of order.
What time stole.
What it keeps returning.

Post from today.
Tag #PoemsAbout #TimeSlips to be read and shared.
Use Alt Text.
Take care with each other.
Multiple glass hourglasses, some filled with white sand and others with black sand, are arranged on a dark, star-patterned fabric surface. A brass-framed hourglass stands prominently at the front. The Broken Spine fountain pen logo is positioned in the top left corner. “@thebrokenspine.co.uk” appears in white at the top right. Bold white text in the lower right reads: “Read Repost Reply #POEMSABOUT #TIMESLIPS”.
January 16, 2026 at 9:00 AM
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Tomorrow: #PoemsAbout #TimeSlips.
Not nostalgia — disruption.
Don’t post before Friday.
That pause? That overlap? That’s the poem.

Tag it.
Use Alt Text.
A group of clear glass hourglasses filled with dark and light sand sit closely together on a fabric backdrop decorated with small stars. The hourglasses show sand at different stages of flow. The Broken Spine fountain pen logo appears in the top left corner, with “@thebrokenspine.co.uk” in white at the top right. Bold white text in the lower right reads: “Read Repost Reply #POEMSABOUT #TIMESLIPS”.
January 15, 2026 at 9:00 AM
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💚🫶💚🫶💚🫶💚
Looking forward to immersing myself in @poetryireland.bsky.social Review 147 Love Poems To Humans edited by Theo Dorgan 🫶
& also their literary pamphlet Trumpet Issue 14 🎺
What a feast!💚
January 15, 2026 at 3:25 PM
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Open mic slots (5 mins) for The Broken Spine Live at The Grasshopper.
📅 Sat 31 Jan | 7–9pm
📧 mail@thebrokenspine....

Hosted by Alan Parry He/Him
With Jay Rafferty & Martin Kennedy Yates
#PoetryAndPints #NorthWestWriters
Green poetry night flyer for The Broken Spine Live at The Grasshopper, Southport. Event date is Saturday 31.01.26, 19:00–21:00. Free entry. Featuring Jay Rafferty and Martin Kennedy Yates, hosted by Alan Parry. Open mic slots available. Bold white text on a deep green background with golden illustrations of a rose and a hand holding a pint glass.
January 14, 2026 at 7:00 AM
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Delighted to share that my work is in the latest @passionfruitlit.bsky.social issue!

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January 9, 2026 at 8:42 AM
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We’re already reading careful, thoughtful work.

There’s still room — but don’t let this slip past you.

#PoemsAbout #LiftToTheSky #WednesdayWIPs #SpineEdicts #PoetryCommunity #SubmissionWindow #OpenCall #Poetry
Call for Submissions: Poetry That Remembers, Mourns, and Refuses to Let Go - The Broken Spine
Submissions Open Throughout January 2026 | Publication Later That Year
thebrokenspine.co.uk
January 11, 2026 at 8:00 AM
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thebrokenspine.co.uk
Last week bent the signal.
This week: #TimeSlips — moments misfiring, seconds out of joint, the past leaking forward.
Where does time hesitate?
Where does it rush without you?

New theme opens Friday.
Don’t post early.
Use Alt Text.
Tag #PoemsAbout to be found.
Several glass hourglasses of different sizes are arranged together on a dark fabric surface patterned with small stars. Some hourglasses contain white sand, others black sand, captured at different stages of running. One hourglass in a brass frame sits at the front. The Broken Spine fountain pen logo appears in the top left corner. “@thebrokenspine.co.uk” is written in white at the top right. Bold white text in the lower right reads: “Read Repost Reply #POEMSABOUT #TIMESLIPS”.
January 11, 2026 at 10:00 AM
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My very first piece of cnf today in the wonderful @frazzledlit.bsky.social . Please have a read about my cousin, Ashton & if you don't feel like reading, there's an audio of me narrating the piece.
Thanks to brilliant editors, Jen and Laura. Check out the issue!
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Shooting Stars
Creative non-fiction by Barbara Byar
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January 11, 2026 at 10:44 AM
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A quiet nudge for the week ahead.

#WednesdayWIPs is coming up.
A space to share what you’re working on — or how it’s going.
A line. A paragraph. A struggle. A pause.

No polish required.
Progress counts.
Care is reciprocal here.
January 10, 2026 at 6:00 AM
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The Starbeck Orion issue #14 Not Advent Anthology Day 17 of 25 featuring the poetry of Jim Paterson
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The Starbeck Orion issue #14 Not Advent Anthology Day 17 of 25 featuring the poetry of Jim Paterson
A Feast Of Word And Image
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January 10, 2026 at 7:33 AM
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‘Underhill Park, a pelt on the season’s belt’ 🌳 🌲 ❄️

‘Mumbles hushed’ 🌊 🤫

‘A cave of flowers waits to rise’ 🌺

Manda Eliot with ‘Winter Petals’, set in Swansea. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

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January 9, 2026 at 9:05 PM
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Here's something I wrote earlier for #poemsabout #static. Happy new year everyone and thanks as always to @alanparrywriter.co.uk @thebrokenspine.co.uk for the great prompt! #poems #poetry
Static my father did his best adrift with two small boys the photographs her wedding dress in the wardrobe jewellery still in the drawer her presence everywhere yet nowhere dissolving did he open that box to wonder what might have been they had known each other since they were children static replaces her fading signal
January 9, 2026 at 9:19 AM
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New poem, same muse. Thank you to @anthonyframe.bsky.social for making space for this one in @glasspoetry.bsky.social, a journal I have loved for so very long.

You can also listen here: www.glass-poetry.com/journal.html

Holding the world in my heart, as well. 💙
Found Poem Built of Endings I arrive at your mixed messaging scribbled in the upper left-hand corner of the margin: Everyone is feeling down & everyone is feeling better. On top of that, the use of an underline for emphasis. Because (I can only guess): guns. Because a few more hours. Because a confiscated book. Because in September, the surveilled field will arrive as a mirror reflecting the months that were most uncomfortable. Even here, the stark definition of a boy apocalypse. Stolid body, rattled heart: a gas molecule simulating a solid, that in your orange jumpsuit you appear just fine, though not as believably as the hummingbird that lent its heart to the failing engine of a car. Remind me, is it the freedom of monotony or the monotony of freedom? In merely waiting? In merely attempting to convince another of an idea also unknown to me? In humbly confessing, I could have sworn something else was going to happen today — I guess I was wrong. This poem is part of a larger series of response poems to the journal entries my brother penned while serving 90 days in county jail during the summer of 2020 for addiction-related offenses. More specifically, my brother kept a daily journal with the intent that I would write an accompanying poem for each entry. Though the world told him otherwise, he believed his voice mattered, and we hoped to publish our work together. Eight days after being released, he passed away from a drug overdose, which means our project and his "text" have since taken on new meaning. He often said jail was one ending after another after another, that no activity was given the dignity of completion: sleeping, reading a book, a game of cards, using the tablet. This poem speaks to that characterization, as well as my brother's fear that eventually he'd grow immune to such treatment. The italicized text is excerpted from his journal entry dated 8/29/20.
January 8, 2026 at 10:25 PM