Today we show up for each other. That’s what #LiftToTheSky is for.

Last week's poets brought it. This week: #PoemsAbout #LastTrain. Last chances. Missed chances. Departures you can never take back. Theme opens Friday. Use Alt Text.

#PoemsAbout #BadHabits is live. Post through Thursday. We favour image-driven poems, emotional honesty, working-class grit, sharp endings, and work that avoids cliché. #TakeRisks #EndOnAnImage. Read 3+, repost, reply. Use Alt Text.

A new Broken Spine workshop is in development. The Poetry of Cultural Debris will explore how mixtapes, cinema tickets, obsolete technology, childhood toys, half-remembered sitcoms & other pop-cultural remnants can become poems of memory, identity & private mythology. More soon.

#PoemsAbout #ExitWounds is live. Post through Thursday. We favour image-driven poems, emotional honesty, sharp endings, and work that avoids cliché. #TakeRisks #EndOnAnImage. Read 3+, repost, reply. Use Alt Text.

#PoemsAbout #PowerCut is live. Post through Thursday. We favour image-driven poems, emotional honesty, sharp endings, and work that avoids cliché. #TakeRisks #EndOnAnImage. Read 3+, repost, reply. Use Alt Text.

#PoemsAbout #CheapMotels is live. Post through Thursday. We favour image-driven poems, emotional honesty, working-class grit, sharp endings, and work that avoids cliché. #TakeRisks #EndOnAnImage. Read 3+, repost, reply. Use Alt Text.

#PoemsAbout #TheLook is live. Post through Thursday. We favour image-driven poems, emotional honesty, queer voices, sharp endings, and work that avoids cliché. #TakeRisks #EndOnAnImage. Read 3+, repost, reply. Use Alt Text.

#PoemsAbout #OutAfterMidnight is live. Post through Thursday. We favour image-driven poems, emotional honesty, queer voices, working-class grit, sharp endings, and work that avoids cliché. #TakeRisks #EndOnAnImage. Read 3+, repost, reply. Use Alt Text.

#PoemsAbout #WrongBody is live. Post through Thursday. We favour vivid imagery, queer voices, emotional honesty, sharp endings, and poems that avoid cliché. Read 3+, repost, reply. Use Alt Text.

#PoemsAbout #EarnTheRight is live. Post from today through Thursday. #TakeRisks #EndOnAnImage #AvoidCliché Engage—don’t ghost. Read 3+, repost, reply.

#PoemsAbout #BearingWitness is live. Post from today through Thursday. #TakeRisks #EndOnAnImage #AvoidCliché Engage—don’t ghost. Read 3+, repost, reply.

#PoemsAbout #WhatRemains is live. Post from today through Thursday. #TakeRisks #EndOnAnImage #AvoidCliché Engage—don’t ghost. Read 3+, repost, reply.

#PoemsAbout #NamesNotNumbers is live. Post from today through Thursday. #TakeRisks #EndOnAnImage #AvoidCliché Engage—don’t ghost. Read 3+, repost, reply.

#PoemsAbout #AfterTheSirens is live. Post from today through Thursday. #TakeRisks #EndOnAnImage #AvoidCliché Engage—don’t ghost. Read 3+, repost, reply.

Thank you to everyone who joined the return of our #PoemsAbout #OpenMic, an evening shaped by generous, thoughtful, and striking work. So many talented international voices, and brilliant to welcome new faces into the fold. A reminder of what community can be.

#PoemsAbout #SignalLoss is live. Post from today through Thursday. #TakeRisks #EndOnAnImage #AvoidCliché Engage—don’t ghost. Read 3+, repost, reply.

#PoemsAbout #Gravity is live. Post from today through Thursday. #TakeRisks #EndOnAnImage #AvoidCliché Engage—don’t ghost. Read 3+, repost, reply.

Major announcement: #Wave3 of #TheWhiskeyTree is complete. Built on the work of #Wave1 + #Wave2 — writers like @karenpgonzalez.bsky.social @markantonyowen.com @eatthestorms.com et al — who laid the foundations and built this project into what it is. This is the final wave. #TheWhiskeyTree #Wave3

#PoemsAbout #EdgeOfKnowing is live. Post from today through Thursday. Tag your post. Use Alt Text. #TakeRisks #EndOnAnImage #AvoidCliché. Engage—don’t ghost. Read 3+, repost, reply.

#PoemsAbout #OpenMic returns this month. Bring work or stay quiet.

#PoemsAbout returns. Not revived. Not rebranded. Continued. A space built for work that holds its ground — not posts that drift past and disappear. No soft framing. Just the poem, and what it’s willing to risk. Friday, April 10. Show up with something that matters. #PoemsAbout

Our prize matters as much as any other poetry prize. Which is to say: it doesn’t. But it was built honestly and together — and that’s enough. #TheBrokenSpineAward #ByPoetsForPoets #PoemsAbout #LiftToTheSky

This prize exists because we decided to make it — and you decided to help. That’s the only legitimacy we care about. Everything else is theatre. #TheBrokenSpineAward #ByPoetsForPoets #PoemsAbout #LiftToTheSky

#PoemsAbout #InBloom is live. Write what opens without apology. What grows because it must. What risks being seen because staying closed would be worse. Some things bloom loudly. Let them. Post from today. Tag #PoemsAbout #InBloom to be read and shared. Use Alt Text. Take care with each other.

#PoemsAbout #Melt is live. Write what can’t stay sharp. What slips shape under heat. What becomes truer once it stops resisting. Some things aren’t meant to last intact. Post from today. Tag #PoemsAbout #Melt to be read and shared. Use Alt Text. Take care with each other.

Tomorrow: #PoemsAbout #Consent. Not mood. Not guesswork. Not entitlement. Don’t post before Friday. That spoken yes? That mutual leaning in? That’s the poem. Tag it. Use Alt Text.

#PoemsAbout #BeingWatched is live. Write the gaze. Wanted. Feared. Returned. Who is seen. Who consents to be seen. Who looks back. Post from today. Tag #PoemsAbout #BeingWatched to be read and shared. Use Alt Text. Take care with each other.

#PoemsAbout #Spent is live. Write the after. The bodies that don’t rush apart. The silence that isn’t empty. The care that follows intensity. Post from today. Tag #PoemsAbout #Spent to be read and shared. Use Alt Text. Take care with each other.

#PoemsAbout #UnderTheSkin is live. Write what embeds. What alters you quietly. What you still feel days later. Not everything leaves a mark you can point to. Post from today. Tag #PoemsAbout #UnderTheSkin to be read and shared. Use Alt Text. Take care with each other.